Author: Nicole Brenez
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1839987812
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Films fill our imagination with figures, figurines, and talismans. They ceaselessly rework the same archetypes and invent troubling prototypes – especially when they establish a deeper relationship to reality. How do we understand these presences that are both so characteristic and so diverse in cinema? How does film deal with bodies, movements, and gestures? Why are we so drawn to these shadows, silhouettes, and hypothetical beings? What organizes the figurative values at work in a film? How do cinematic creatures circulate from film to film and image to image? How does film articulate the links between the abstract and figurative? Is it possible to write a history of figurative forms? Starting from films themselves and works that are both classical (Sergei Eisenstein, Roberto Rossellini, Orson Welles) and contemporary (Abel Ferrara, Brian DePalma, Patricia Mazuy), celebrated (Robert Bresson, John Cassavetes, Ken Jacobs, Paul Sharits) and overlooked (Al Razutis, Jean Genet, Monte Hellman, and John Travolta), from auteurs as well as aesthetic questions (representations of dance, the naked body, character development...), the essays in this volume, most available for the first in English, aim to open a field that has been neglected by analysis, while also suggesting the tools necessary to understanding figurative phenomena specific to cinema.
On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular:
Author: Nicole Brenez
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1839987812
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Films fill our imagination with figures, figurines, and talismans. They ceaselessly rework the same archetypes and invent troubling prototypes – especially when they establish a deeper relationship to reality. How do we understand these presences that are both so characteristic and so diverse in cinema? How does film deal with bodies, movements, and gestures? Why are we so drawn to these shadows, silhouettes, and hypothetical beings? What organizes the figurative values at work in a film? How do cinematic creatures circulate from film to film and image to image? How does film articulate the links between the abstract and figurative? Is it possible to write a history of figurative forms? Starting from films themselves and works that are both classical (Sergei Eisenstein, Roberto Rossellini, Orson Welles) and contemporary (Abel Ferrara, Brian DePalma, Patricia Mazuy), celebrated (Robert Bresson, John Cassavetes, Ken Jacobs, Paul Sharits) and overlooked (Al Razutis, Jean Genet, Monte Hellman, and John Travolta), from auteurs as well as aesthetic questions (representations of dance, the naked body, character development...), the essays in this volume, most available for the first in English, aim to open a field that has been neglected by analysis, while also suggesting the tools necessary to understanding figurative phenomena specific to cinema.
Publisher: Anthem Press
ISBN: 1839987812
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Films fill our imagination with figures, figurines, and talismans. They ceaselessly rework the same archetypes and invent troubling prototypes – especially when they establish a deeper relationship to reality. How do we understand these presences that are both so characteristic and so diverse in cinema? How does film deal with bodies, movements, and gestures? Why are we so drawn to these shadows, silhouettes, and hypothetical beings? What organizes the figurative values at work in a film? How do cinematic creatures circulate from film to film and image to image? How does film articulate the links between the abstract and figurative? Is it possible to write a history of figurative forms? Starting from films themselves and works that are both classical (Sergei Eisenstein, Roberto Rossellini, Orson Welles) and contemporary (Abel Ferrara, Brian DePalma, Patricia Mazuy), celebrated (Robert Bresson, John Cassavetes, Ken Jacobs, Paul Sharits) and overlooked (Al Razutis, Jean Genet, Monte Hellman, and John Travolta), from auteurs as well as aesthetic questions (representations of dance, the naked body, character development...), the essays in this volume, most available for the first in English, aim to open a field that has been neglected by analysis, while also suggesting the tools necessary to understanding figurative phenomena specific to cinema.
A Natural History, General and Particular
Author: Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Natural History, General and Particular ... Illustrated with Above Six Hundred Copper Plates. The History of Man and Quadrupeds Translated, with Notes and Observations, by William Smellie ... A New Edition ... Corrected and ... Enlarged, by Many Additional Articles, Notes, and Plates, and Some Account of the Life of M. de Buffon. By William Wood
Author: George Louis LE CLERC (Count de Buffon.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Natural History, General and Particular
Author: Georges Louis Leclerc comte de Buffon
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Category : Natural history
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Natural History, General and Particular. ... Translated, ... with ... Notes and Observations by W. Smellie. Second Edition
Author: George Louis LE CLERC (Count de Buffon.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Languages : en
Pages : 572
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The Works of George Berkeley: Philosophical works, 1734-52
Author: George Berkeley
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Philosophical works, 1734-52: The analyst. A defence of free-thinking in mathematics. Reasons for not replying to Mr. Walton's "full answer". Siris. Letters ... on the virtues of tar-water. Farther thoughts on tar-water. Appendices: A. Berkeley's rough draft of the Introduction to the Principles of human knowledge. B. Arthur Collier. C. Samuel Johnson and Jonathan Edwards. D. Some of Berkeley's early critics. E. An essay 'Of infinites' by Berkeley
Author: George Berkeley
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
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The Works of George Berkeley ... Including His Posthumous Works
Author: George Berkeley
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
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Languages : en
Pages : 428
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The Works of George Berkeley
Author: George Berkeley
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Languages : en
Pages : 574
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Languages : en
Pages : 574
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The Encyclopaedia Britannica Or Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General Literature
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Languages : en
Pages : 898
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Languages : en
Pages : 898
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