Post-war Cinema and Modernity: A Film Reader

John Orr

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2000

Post-war Cinema and Modernity

A Film Reader

John Orr

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474471473

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About this book

Post-war Cinema and Modernity explores the relationship between film and modernity in the second half of the twentieth century. Its distinguishing feature is the focus on the close connections between history, theory and textual criticism.

The first section, on Film Theory and Film Form, begins with a sustained group of theory readings. Bazin and Telotte critique new post-war forms of film narrative, while Metz and Birch respond to the filmic innovations of the 1960s and the question of modernism. Pasolini's landmark polemic on the cinema of poetry is a vital springboard for the later critiques by Deleuze and Tarkovsky of time and the image, and for Kawin and De Lauretis of subjectivities and their narrative transformation, while Jameson deals with the topical question of film and postmodernity. There follows a series of essays grouped around different aspects of film form. General discussion of changes in film technology and cinematic perception can be seen in the essays by Virilio, Wollen, Aumont and Bukatman, and is extended to a discussion of film documentary. Finally, there is a focus on cinematographers and their filmic collaboration, with a specially commissioned essay on post-war British cinematography, and readings featuring the work of Michael Chapman with Martin Scorsese and Nestor Almendros with Terrence Malick.

The second section looks at International Cinema, placing filmmaking and filmmakers in a social and a national context, as well as taking up many aspects of film theory. It brings together landmark essays which contextualise feature films historically, yet also highlight their aesthetic power and their wider cultural importance. Filmmakers discussed include Ozu, Bresson, Hitchcock, Godard, Fassbinder and Zhang Yimou. There is a new translation of Kieslowski's essay on Bergman's The Silence and an essay specially commissioned for the volume on the work of Theo Angelopoulos.

Key Features

Filmmaking and filmmakers are placed in social, national and historical context
The selections address many aspects of film theory and film form
Topics include Film and Narrativity, Representation and Reflexivity, Time and the Image, Subjectivity and Perception, Film and Painting, Gender and Identity
Readings on individual directors - Welles, Antonioni, Rocher, Sembene, Greenaway and Egoyan

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Publicly Available Download PDF	vi
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
SECTION I FILM THEORY AND FILM FORM
Theory and Culture
INTRODUCTION John Orr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	5
1 AN AESTHETIC OF REALITY: NEOREALISM (CINEMATIC REALISM AND THE ITALIAN SCHOOL OF THE LIBERATION) Andre Bazin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2 NOIR NARRATION J. P. Telotte Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3 THE 'CINEMA OF POETRY' Pier Paolo Pasolini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
4 THE MODERN CINEMA AND NARRATIVITY Christian Metz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
5 SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL ARTICULATIONS Noel Burch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
6 THE MIND'S EYE Bruce F. Kawin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	76
7 BEYOND THE MOVEMENT-IMAGE Gilles Deleuze Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	89
8 IMAGING Teresa de Lauretis Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
9 TOTALITY AS CONSPIRACY Fredric Jameson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	119
10 A CINEMA OF POETRY John Orr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Form and Process
11 A TRAVELLING SHOT OVER EIGHTY YEARS Paul Virilio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
12 CINEMA AND TECHNOLOGY: A HISTORICAL OVERVIEW Peter Wollen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
13 THE ROLE OF THE APPARATUS Jacques Aumont Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	167
14 TIME, RHYTHM, EDITING Andrei Tarkovsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	181
15 THE FACT OF REALISM AND THE FICTION OF OBJECTIVITY Bill Nichols Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188
16 THE ARTIFICIAL INFINITE: ON SPECIAL EFFECTS AND THE SUBLIME Scott Bukatman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
17 NEG-EXPRESSIONISM AND BRITISH CINEMATOGRAPHY: THE WORK OF ROBERT KRASKER AND JACK CARDIFF Duncan Petrie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
18 DAYS OF HEAVEN (TERRENCE MALICK - 1976) Nestor Almendros Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	234
19 MICHAEL CHAPMAN (INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL CHAPMAN) Dennis Schaefer and Larry Salvato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	247
SECTION 2 INTERNATIONAL CINEMA
INTRODUCTION Olga Taxidou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
20 INTRODUCTION TO OZU Donald Richie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
21 FEMININITY BY DESIGN: VERTIGO Tania Modleski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	275
22 INTRODUCTION TO ORSON WELLES, DIRECTOR Terry Comito Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
23 BRESSON Paul Schrader Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	298
24 GODARD Susan Sontag Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
25 ANTONIONI'S RED DESERT Angela Daile Vacche Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	318
26 TRANSFORMATIONS IN FASSBINDER'S BITTER TEARS OF PETRA VON KANT Timothy Corrigan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	333
27 BLACK GOD, WHITE DEVIL: THE REPRESENTATION OF HISTORY Ismail Xavier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	343
28 THE SHOOT Colin MacCabe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	356
29 THE CARAPACE THAT FAILED: OUSMANE SEMBENE'S XALA Laura Mulvey Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	364
30 THE BOOK DEPOSITORY David Pascoe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	376
31 THE FORCE OF SURFACES: DEFIANCE IN ZHANG YIMOU'S FILMS Rey Chow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	384
32 MONUMENTS OF TIME: THE WORKS OF THEO ANGELOPOULOS Vassiliki Kolocotroni Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	399
33 IMAGINARY IMAGES: AN EXAMINATION OF ATOM EGOYAN'S FILMS Peter Harcourt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	410
34 BERGMAN'S SILENCE Krzystof Kieslowski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	422
35 REPENTANCE: STALINIST TERROR AND THE REALISM OF SURREALISM Denise Youngblood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	426
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	440

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 464
Illustrations
- Other: Illustrated
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: November 26, 2000
ISBN: 9781474471473