Mediamorphosis - Kafka and the Moving Image

Mediamorphosis compiles articles by some of today's leading forces in the scholarship of Kafka as well as film studies to provide a thorough investigation of the reciprocal relations between Kafka's work and the cinematic medium. The volume approaches the theoretical integration of Kafka and cinema via such issues as the cinematic qualities in Kafka's prose and the possibility of a visual manifestation of the Kafkaesque. Alongside these debates, the book investigates the capacity of cinema to incorporate and express the unique qualities of a Kafkaesque world through an analysis of cinematic adaptations of Kafka's prose, such as Michael Haneke's The Castle (1997) and Straub-Huillet's Class Relations (1984), as well as films that carry a more subtle relation to Kafka's oeuvre, such as the cinematic works of David Cronenberg, the films of the Coen brothers, Chris Marker's "film-essay," Charlie Chaplin's tramp, and others.

About the author

Shai Biderman is professor of philosophy at Tel Aviv University. He teaches film and philosophy at TAU and at Beit-Berl College, Israel. He is the coeditor of The Philosophy of David Lynch. Ido Lewit is a PhD candidate in the Department of Film and Television at Tel Aviv University

Summary

Mediamorphosis compiles articles by some of today’s leading forces in the scholarship of Kafka as well as film studies to provide a thorough investigation of the reciprocal relations between Kafka’s work and the cinematic medium.

Product details

• Authors: Shai Biderman
• Assisted by: Shai Biderman (Editor), Biderman Shai (Editor), Ido Lewit (Editor), Lewit Ido (Editor)
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9780231176453
• ISBN: 978-0-231-17645-3
• No. of pages: 286
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 24 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, german, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form