Rethinking Brechtian Film Theory and Cinema

ISBN-13: 9781474418904 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 272 str.

Angelos Koutsourakis

Opis

Making a compelling argument for the continuing relevance of Brechtian film theory and cinema, this book offers new research and analysis of Brecht the film and media theorist, placing his scattered writings on the subject within the lively film theory debates that took place in Europe between the 1920s?1960s.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1: Brechtian Film Theory; Chapter 1: Key Concepts; Chapter 2: Photography and Film; Chapter 3: Modernism as Realism; Chapter 4: Brecht in Film Theory; Part 2: Brechtian Cinema; Chapter 5: Re-visioning History; Chapter 6: Revisiting National Traumas; Chapter 7: Beyond Auteurism: the Dialectics of the Essay Film; Chapter 8: Pedagogical Essay Films; Chapter 9: Brecht and Artaud; Chapter 10: Cruelty as Anti?commodity; Epilogue; Bibliography; Index