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Zusatztext A compelling study that will leave an enduring mark on film and media studies. Informationen zum Autor Jacques Rancière taught at the University of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement. Emiliano Battista is the translator of Jacques Rancière's Althusser's Lesson (Continuum, 2011) and Film Fables (Berg, 2006). Klappentext "Film Fables "traces the history of modern cinema, moving effortlessly from Eisenstein's and Murnau's transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang's confrontation with television, from the classical poetics of Mann's Westerns to Ray's romantic poetics of the image, from Rossellini's neo-realism to Deleuze's philosophy of the cinema and Marker's documentaries. Zusammenfassung Film Fables traces the history of modern cinema. Encyclopedic in scope, Film Fables is that rare work that manages to combine extraordinary breadth and analysis with a lyricism which attests time and again to a love of cinema.Jacques Ranciere moves effortlessly from Eisenstein's and Murnau's transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang's confrontation with television, from the classical poetics of Mann's Westerns to Ray's romantic poetics of the image, from Rossellini's neo-realism to Deleuze's philosophy of the cinema and Marker's documentaries.The Film Fable shows us how, between its images and its stories, the cinema tells its truth. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: A Thwarted Fable Part I: FABLES OF THE VISIBLE1. Between the age of the theatre and the television age2. Eisenstein's Madness3. A Silent Tartuffe4. From One Manhunt to Another: Fritz Lang Between Two Ages5. The Child DirectorPart II: CLASSICAL NARRATIVE, ROMANTIC NARRATIVE6. Some Things To Do: The Poetics of Anthony Mann7. The Missing Shot: The Poetics of Nicholas Ray Part III: IF THERE IS A CINEMATOGRAPHIC MODERNITY8. From One Image to Another? Deleuze and the Ages of Cinema9. Falling Bodies: Rossellini's Physics10. The Red of La Chinoise: Godard's PoliticsPart IV: FABLES OF THE CINEMA, (HI)STORIES OF A CENTURY11. Documentary Fiction: Marker and the Fiction of Memory 12. A Fable Without a Moral: Godard, Cinema, (Hi)storiesList of FilmsSources and Acknowledgments...
