Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism

Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism

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Kappelhoff, Hermann
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
EAN: 9780231539319
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Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to individual experience (which existing political institutions cannot), he reads films by Sergei Eisenstein and Pedro Almodovar, by the New Objectivity and the New Hollywood, to demonstrate how cinema situates spectators within society. Kappelhoff applies the Deleuzean practice of &quote;thinking in images&quote; to his analysis of films and incorporates the approaches of Jacques Ranciere and Richard Rorty, who see politics in the permanent reconfiguration of poetic forms. This enables him to conceptualize film as a medium that continually renews the audiovisual spaces and temporalities through which audiences confront reality. Revitalizing the reading of films by Visconti, Fassbinder, Kubrick, Friedkin, and others, Kappelhoff affirms cinema's historical significance while discovering its engagement with politics as a realm of experience.
EAN 9780231539319
ISBN 0231539312
Binding Ebook
Publisher COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESS
Publication date August 11, 2015
Language English
Country Uruguay
Authors Kappelhoff, Hermann
Translators Hendrickson, Daniel
Series Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts