Contemporary Cinema
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Contemporary Cinema

  1. 224 pages
  2. English
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Contemporary Cinema

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This is a major study of key developments in the cinema over the last thirty years. It reworks Pasolini's landmark concept of 'the cinema of poetry' to look at the transformation of film form in its encounter with society, the sacred, the subjective and the presence of the camera.

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Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
9781474471466
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video

Table of contents

  1. CONTENTS
  2. List of Illustrations
  3. Foreword
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. 1 A Cinema of Poetry
  6. 2 The Sacrifical Unconscious: The Red Desert to Three Colours: Blue
  7. 3 The Screen as Split Subject 1: Persona's Legacy
  8. 4 The Screen as Split SUbject 2: Into the 1900s
  9. 5 The Camera as Double Vision: Blow-Up tp La Belle Noiseuse
  10. 6 American Reveries: Altman, Lynch Malick, Scorsese
  11. 7 Anxieties of the Masculine Sublime
  12. 8 The Road to Nowhere: 1900s Noir
  13. Endnotes
  14. Select Bibliography
  15. Index