Magic Realism, World Cinema, and the Avant-Garde

ISBN-13: 9781138232297 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 230 str.

Felicity Gee

Opis

This book follows the hybrid and contradictory history of magic realism through the writings of three key figures – art historian Franz Roh, novelist Alejo Carpentier, and cultural critic Fredric Jameson – drawing links between their political, aesthetic, and philosophical ideas on art’s relationship to reality.

Spis treści

Foreword: Magic realism – The chronicle of a discourse ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Magischer Realismus and the ‘demon fantastic’: painting, photography, film ; 3. Ethno-magic-realist documentary: ecstatic practice ; 4. Lo real maravilloso americano: prismatic reality and the screen ; 5. Magic realism: the prehensile toe – Jameson, Magritte, and affect ; 6. ‘Soviet magic realism’ and world cinema ; 7. Hyperreality, understatement, atmosphere, and ambivalence; Coda

O autorze

Felicity Gee is a senior lecturer in Modernism and World Cinema at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research interests include surrealism, women theorists and critical theory, and film-philosophy. Her work takes an interdisciplinary approach, spanning film, art history, literature, and critical theory. Recent publications include articles on Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Vera Chytilová, and authorial affect in Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well.