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Informationen zum Autor Ivone Margulies, ed. Klappentext "These exciting and varied essays probe the relations between cinematic realism and representations of the body--above all the body as a guarantor (or not) of a link between images and the real. As in the best collections, the essays present distinctive points-of-view, yet they cohere around a compelling through-line, offering illumination and insight beyond just the sum of their parts."--Leo Charney, author of "Empty Moments: Cinema, Modernity, and Drift" Zusammenfassung Includes essays by a range of film theorists that propose stimulating approaches to the critical evaluation of modern realist films and such referential genres as reenactment! historical film! adaptation! portrait films! documentary! and realist depictions of urban life. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Bodies Too Much / Ivone Margulies 1Bazinian Contingencies Death Every Afternoon / André Bazin 27Translated by Mark A. Cohen The Screen of Fantasy (Bazin and Animals) / Serge Daney 32Translated by Mark A. Cohen History of Image, Image of History: Subject and Ontology in Bazin / Philip Rosen 42 The Object of Theory / Mary Ann Doane 80Cultural Indices No Longer Absolute: Portraiture in American Avant-Garde and Documentary Films of the Sixties / Paul Arthur 93 In Search of the Real City: Cinematic Representations of Beijing and the Politics of Vision / Xiaobing Tang 119 Private Reality: Hara Kazou's Films / Abé Mark Nornes 144 Mike Leigh's Modernist Realism / Richard Porton 164 Why Is This Absurd Picture Here? Ethnology/Heterology/Buñuel / James F. Lastra 185Retracings Exemplary Bodies: Reenactment in Love in the City, Sons, and Close Up / Ivone Margulies 217 Pasolini on Terra Sancta: Towards a Theology of Film / Noa Steimatsky 245 Ecstatic Ethnography: Maya Deren and the Filming of Possession Rituals / Catherine Russell 270 Filmic Tableau Vivant: Vermeer, Intermediality, and the Real / Brigitte Peucker 294 Dreyer's Textual Realism / James Schamus 315 Selected Bibliography 325 Contributors 333 Index 337...
