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Danièle Huillet, Jean-Marie Straub : objectivists in cinema /

Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub collaborated on films together from the mid-1960s through the mid-2000s, making formally radical adaptations in several languages of major works of European literature by authors including Franz Kafka, Bertolt Brecht, Friedrich Hölderlin, Pierre Corneille, Arn...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Turquety, Benoît (Author)
Other Authors: Fendt, Ted (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2020]
Series:Film culture in transition.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part One Foundations
  • 1. Erotic Barbarity: Othon
  • A Play, A Film
  • Principles
  • Tradition and Opacity
  • 2. Objectivity and Objectivities
  • Huillet and Straub-style "Objectivity"
  • Objectivities
  • The Objectivists: A History
  • Objectivist Poetic Theory
  • Part Two Language/Authority
  • 3. The Power of Speech (or the Voice), of Seeing and the Path: Moses And Aaron
  • Moses, Aaron, Schoenberg, Huillet & Straub
  • The Cinematic Form of (the Absence of) God: "The Calling of Moses"
  • Language Remains
  • Birth of a Nation: Act II and End
  • Objective on Objective: Huillet and Straub's Position
  • 4. Speech against Power, or Poetry, Love, and Revolution: "A"-9
  • A Poem, History
  • The Form of "A"-9
  • Value and Meaning: Capitalism and Abstraction
  • Love as a Poetic/Revolutionary Technique
  • Part Three Interruptions
  • 5. Cinema, Poetry, History: Immobilizations
  • Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's "Musical Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene": Motion and Pause, Cinema as History
  • From Ideogram to Fugue: Poetry/Cinema
  • Interruptions
  • Continuities
  • History Without a Name
  • Braiding, Cutting
  • Part Four Trials, Series
  • 6. Industrial Civilization for the Last Time: Class Relations
  • Trials
  • On Space
  • 7. On Dissolution
  • Speech Without Authority: The Death of Empedocles
  • On Dismantling: Testimony and Workers, Peasants
  • Conclusion
  • About the Author
  • Index