Film Fables

ISBN-13: 9781474270809 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 208 str.

Jacques Ranciere

Opis

In Film Fables Jacques Ranciere turns his critical eye to the history of modern cinema. Combining an extraordinary breadth of analysis with an attentiveness to detail born from an obvious love of cinema, Ranciere shows us new ways of looking at and interpreting film. His analysis moves effortlessly from Eisenstein's and Murnau's transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang's confrontation with television, from the classical poetics of Mann's Westerns to Ray's romantic poetics of the image, from Rossellini's neo-realism to Deleuze's philosophy of the cinema. The book also includes extended commentaries on the work of Hitchcock, Godard, Vertov and Bergman. Film Fables is essential reading for anyone wanting to gain a better understanding of the power and complexity of the cinematic form and it's rich history.

Recenzje

A compelling study that will leave an enduring mark on film and media studies. Tom Conley, Harvard University, USA

Spis treści

Translator's PrefacePrologue: A Thwarted Fable Part I: FABLES OF THE VISIBLEBetween the age of the theater and the television age1. Eisenstein's Madness2. A Silent Tartuffe3. From One Manhunt to Another: Fritz Lang Between Two Ages4. The Child DirectorPart II: CLASSICAL NARRATIVE, ROMANTIC NARRATIVE5. Some Things To Do: The Poetics of Anthony Mann6. The Missing Shot: The Poetics of Nicholas Ray Part III: IF THERE IS A CINEMATOGRAPHIC MODERNITY7. From One Image to Another? Deleuze and the Ages of Cinema8. Falling Bodies: Rossellini's Physics9. The Red of La Chinoise: Godard's PoliticsPart IV: FABLES OF THE CINEMA, (HI)STORIES OF A CENTURY10. Documentary Fiction: Marker and the Fiction of Memory 11. A Fable Without a Moral: Godard, Cinema, (Hi)storiesIndex

O autorze

Jacques Rancière taught at the University of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement.