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The Art of Seeing, the Art of Listening - The Politics of Representation in the Work of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

English · Paperback / Softback

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Straub/Huillet's work challenges received notions of film. This study takes a feature which is common to all of their films as its starting point for analysing this challenge: all are based on existing works of art. The author investigates how Kafka's writing, music by Schoenberg and Bach and Cézanne's painting engender alternative modes of filmic representation. In these, the shape of time and space and the material features of sounds and images engage the audience's attention; they sensitise the viewer to the material inscriptions of human existence and an utopian potential. It is in this sense that these films are deeply political. By focusing on formal and stylistic features, and the interplay between the films and the works of art which they are based on, this volume responds to the films' invitation to see and hear differently.

List of contents

Contents: «Three Obligatory Parts, Well and Accurately Used» - Cinematic Polyphony in The Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach - «Barbarism Becomes Visible» - Montage and Documentation in Introduction to Arnold Schoenberg's Accompaniment to a Cinematographic Scene - «But You Have Eyes and Ears in Your Head, Haven't You?» - Staging the Language of Kafka in Klassenverhältnisse - «The Conscientious Observation of Things» - Reframing Cézanne.

About the author

The Author: Ursula Böser was born in Mannheim. She lectures in the Department of Languages and Intercultural Studies at Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh.

Product details

Authors Ursula Böser
Assisted by Helmut Schanze (Editor)
Publisher Peter Lang
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 31.05.2016
 
EAN 9783631523520
ISBN 978-3-631-52352-0
No. of pages 244
Dimensions 148 mm x 14 mm x 210 mm
Weight 359 g
Series Medien und Fiktionen
Medien und Fiktionen
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV
Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Book trade, library system

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