Jean Epstein : Corporeal cinema and film philosophy /

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"If cinema can be approached as poetry and philosophy, it is because of Jean Epstein. Cocteau, Buñuel (who was his assistant), Hitchcock, Pasolini and Godard, and theoreticians Kracauer, Deleuze and Ranciere are directly influenced by Epstein's pioneering film work, writings, and concepts...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wall-Romana, Christophe (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2013.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Epstein, Jean > 1897-1953
Epstein, Jean, > 1897-1953.
Epstein, Jean, > 1897-1953 > Criticism and interpretation.
Filmtheorie
Motion pictures > Philosophy.
Motion picture producers and directors.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Producteurs et realisateurs de cinema > France.
Motion picture producers and directors > France.
France.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:"If cinema can be approached as poetry and philosophy, it is because of Jean Epstein. Cocteau, Buñuel (who was his assistant), Hitchcock, Pasolini and Godard, and theoreticians Kracauer, Deleuze and Ranciere are directly influenced by Epstein's pioneering film work, writings, and concepts. This book is the first in English to examine his oeuvre comprehensively. An avant-garde artist and an anti-elitist intellectual, Epstein wanted to craft moments of pure transformative cinema. Using familiar genres - melodramas and documentaries - he hoped to heal viewers of all classes and hasten social utopia. A lover of cinema as cognitive and sensorial technology, and a poet of the screen, he pushed cinematography - as photogenie - towards the experimental sublime, through daring close-ups, rhythmic montage, slow motion, even reverse motion."--Publisher's website.
Physical Description:1 online resource (272 pages): illustrations
ISBN:9781526111371

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