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The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism

The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism (Cover)

The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism (Cover)

Kappelhoff, Hermann – 2015

Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to individual experience (which existing political institutions cannot), he reads films by Sergei Eisenstein and Pedro Almodóvar, by the New Objectivity and the New Hollywood, to demonstrate how cinema situates spectators within society. Kappelhoff applies the Deleuzean practice of "thinking in images" to his analysis of films and incorporates the approaches of Jacques Rancière and Richard Rorty, who see politics in the permanent reconfiguration of poetic forms. This enables him to conceptualize film as a medium that continually renews the audiovisual spaces and temporalities through which audiences confront reality. Revitalizing the reading of films by Visconti, Fassbinder, Kubrick, Friedkin, and others, Kappelhoff affirms cinema's historical significance while discovering its engagement with politics as a realm of experience.

Title
The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism
Author
Kappelhoff, Hermann
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Location
New York
Date
2015
Identifier
ISBN: 9780231539319
Language
eng
Type
Text