| Description |
1 online resource (xxx, 230 pages) |
| Contents |
Part 1: Figurative Economies. -- Why Must the Dead Be Killed?: Observations on John Woo -- Capitalism: Jack Smith -- "Unusual Approach to Bodies": Robert Bresson with Jean Eustache, Philippe Garrel, and Monte Hellman -- Sketch/Skip/Excessive Synthesis: Jacques Tourneur's Cat People, Dario Argento's Suspiria, John McTiernan's Predator -- Part 2: Adventures of the Classical Body in Modern Cinema. -- S.M. Eisenstein, Bella Figura, and Formal Deflagration -- Anti-Bodies: Instances of the Classical Body in the Work of Jean Genet, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Gus Van Sant -- Short-Circuit: Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate -- Part 3: New Abstractions in Figurative Invention. -- The Contemporary Character -- The Being According to the Image: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane -- "Cause it sounds more French": On a Secondary Character in Maurice Pialat's Police -- Theft: Robert Bresson's Pickpocket -- Part 4: Summonses: Figures of the Actor. -- The Actor as Affective Citizen -- Lassie, Unfaithful to Dogs: Fred M. Wilcox's Lassie Come Home -- "Die for Mr. Jensen": John Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence -- Part 5: Image Circuits. -- Travolta Himself: Dance and the Circulation of Images - Fantasy, Phantasm, and Phantasmata -- Thirst: Barbara Loden's Wanda -- The Visual Study: The Forces of a Cinematic Form -- The First Shot: Philippe Garrel's Liberté, la nuit -- Anti-Oedipus: John Woo's Heroes Shed No Tears -- Part 6: Theoretical Invention. -- "As You Are": Representation and Figuration, Questions of Terminology in the Work of Barthes, Eisenstein, Benjamin, and Epstein -- The Physics of Cinema: An Introduction to the Literary and Cinematic Oeuvre of Paul Sharits -- In the Meantime: Kirk Tougas' The Politics of Perception -- Epilogue: The Accident |
| Summary |
A collection of wide-ranging essays written throughout the 1990s, On the Body in General and the Figure in Particular: Figurative Invention in Cinema covers an array of genres and styles to propose an original method of cinematic analysis and interpretation foregrounding film's formal and plastic qualities in all their multifaceted materiality and aesthetics. Brenez reconsiders what a body on film can be and what constitutes a figure in cinema |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
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Translated from the French |
| Subject |
Realism in motion pictures.
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Human body in motion pictures.
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Gesture in motion pictures.
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Motion pictures -- History.
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Gesture in motion pictures
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Human body in motion pictures
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Motion pictures
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Realism in motion pictures
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fendt, Ted, translator.
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| ISBN |
9781839987816 |
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1839987812 |
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9781839987823 |
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1839987820 |
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