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Informationen zum Autor Bill Nichols is professor of cinema at San Francisco State University. Michael Renov is vice dean of academic affairs and professor of critical studies in the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. Klappentext Péter Forgács, based in Budapest, is best known for his award-winning films built on home movies from the 1930s to the 1960s that document ordinary lives soon to intersect with offscreen historical events. Cinema's Alchemist offers a sustained exploration of the imagination and skill with which Forgács reshapes such film footage, originally intended for private and personal viewing, into extraordinary films dedicated to remembering the past in ways that matter for our future.Contributors: Whitney Davis, U of California, Berkeley; László F. Földényi, U of Theatre, Film and Television, Budapest; Marsha Kinder, U of Southern California; Tamás Korányi; Scott MacDonald, Hamilton College; Tyrus Miller, U of California, Santa Cruz; Roger Odin, U of Paris III Sorbonne-Nouvelle; Catherine Portuges, U of Massachusetts Amherst; Michael S. Roth, Wesleyan U; Kaja Silverman, U of Pennsylvania; Ernst van Alphen, Leiden U, the Netherlands; Malin Wahlberg, Stockholm U. Zusammenfassung Multiple views of the famed Hungarian filmmaker and installation artist who turns home movies into history Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsIntroductionBill Nichols Part I. Setting the Scene1. Péter Forgács: An InterviewScott MacDonald2. The Memory of Loss: Péter Forgács’s Saga of Family Life and Social HellPeter Forgács and Bill Nichols, in dialoguePart II. The Holocaust Films3. Towards a New Historiography: The Aesthetics of TemporalityErnst van Alphen4. Ordinary Film: The MaelstromMichael S. Roth5. Historical Discourses of the Unimaginable: The MaelstromMichael Renov6. Waiting, Hoping, among the Ruins of All the RestKaja Silverman7. The Trace: Framing the Presence of the Past in Free FallMalin WahlbergPart III. Other Films/Other Contexts8. How to Make History Perceptible: The Bartos Family and the Private Hungary seriesRoger Odin9. Found Images as Witness to Central European History: A Bibó Reader and Miss Universe 1929Catherine Portuges10. Re-envisioning the Documentary Fact: On Saying and Showing in Wittgenstein Tractatus and Bourgeois DictionariesTyrus Miller11. The World Rewound: Wittgenstein TractatusWhitney Davis12. Taking the Part for the Whole: Some Thoughts Inspired by the Film Music of Tibor SzemzöTamás Korányi13. Analytical Spaces: The Installations of Péter ForgácsLászló F. Földényi14. Reorchestrating History: Transforming The Danube Exodus into a Database DocumentaryMarsha KinderAcknowledgmentsFilmographyContributorsIndex...
