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On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular : Figurative Invention In Cinema /
A collection of wide-ranging essays written throughout the 1990s, On the Body in General and the Figure in Particular: Figurative Invention in Cinema covers an array of genres and styles to propose an original method of cinematic analysis and interpretation foregrounding film's formal and plast...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ;
a New York : Anthem Press,
[2023].
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part 1: Figurative Economies.
- Why Must the Dead Be Killed?: Observations on John Woo
- Capitalism: Jack Smith
- “Unusual Approach to Bodies”: Robert Bresson with Jean Eustache, Philippe Garrel, and Monte Hellman
- Sketch/Skip/Excessive Synthesis: Jacques Tourneur’s Cat People, Dario Argento’s Suspiria, John McTiernan’s Predator
- Part 2: Adventures of the Classical Body in Modern Cinema.
- S.M. Eisenstein, Bella Figura, and Formal Deflagration
- Anti-Bodies: Instances of the Classical Body in the Work of Jean Genet, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Gus Van Sant
- Short-Circuit: Michael Cimino’s Heaven’s Gate
- Part 3: New Abstractions in Figurative Invention.
- The Contemporary Character
- The Being According to the Image: Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane
- "Cause it sounds more French": On a Secondary Character in Maurice Pialat’s Police
- Theft: Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket
- Part 4: Summonses: Figures of the Actor.
- The Actor as Affective Citizen
- Lassie, Unfaithful to Dogs: Fred M. Wilcox’s Lassie Come Home
- "Die for Mr. Jensen": John Cassavetes’ A Woman Under the Influence
- Part 5: Image Circuits.
- Travolta Himself: Dance and the Circulation of Images – Fantasy, Phantasm, and Phantasmata
- Thirst: Barbara Loden’s Wanda
- The Visual Study: The Forces of a Cinematic Form
- The First Shot: Philippe Garrel’s Liberté, la nuit
- Anti-Oedipus: John Woo’s Heroes Shed No Tears
- Part 6: Theoretical Invention.
- "As You Are": Representation and Figuration, Questions of Terminology in the Work of Barthes, Eisenstein, Benjamin, and Epstein
- The Physics of Cinema: An Introduction to the Literary and Cinematic Oeuvre of Paul Sharits
- In the Meantime: Kirk Tougas’ The Politics of Perception
- Epilogue: The Accident.