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Contemporary Cinema / John Orr.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©1998Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 10 black-and-white illustrationsContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748608362
  • 9781474471466
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1. A Cinema of Poetry -- 2. The Sacrificial Unconscious: The Red Desert to Three Colours: Blue -- 3. The Screen as Split Subject 1: Persona's Legacy -- 4. The Screen as Split Subject 2: Into the 1990s -- 5. The Camera as Double Vision: Blow-Up to La Belle Noiseuse -- 6. American Reveries: Altman, Lynch, Malick, Scorsese -- 7. Anxieties of the Masculine Sublime -- 8. The Road to Nowhere: 1990s Noir -- Endnotes -- Select Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Contemporary Cinema is a major study of key developments in the cinema over the last thirty years. It reworks Pasolini's landmark concept of 'the cinema of poetry' to look at the transformation of film form in its encounter with society, the sacred, the subjective and the presence of the camera. Poetic cinemas are seen as creating a distincitive match in their own cultures between critical social engagement and the delirium of form. In the 1970s, the influential forms of a cinema of poetry are analysed in key features by Altman, Herzog, Malick, Scorsese, Weir, Von Trotta and Tarkovsky while in the 1980s and 1990s the emergence of new filmmakers has meant a diffusion of different cinemas of poetry using new techniques and new technologies. Of key importance here is the work of Kieslowski, Lynch, Egoyan, Campion, Greenaway, Zhang Yimou, Tran Anh Hung and Wong Kar-Wai, as well as the reinvention of science fiction and film noir in American genre. These multiple cinemas of poetry with their social commitment and stylistic delirium have created a new freshness, vitality and visual impact to outrival the mainstream genre products of the Hollywood studies which currently dominate the world.The most comprehensive study of major developments in the cinema during the last thirty years.New insights into the transformation of 1970s cinemaShows the continuing diffusion of cinemas of poetry and the most talented filmmakers of the 1980s and 1990s.Looks at the vitality of the different cinemas of poetry as aesthetic resistance to the forms of filmmaking dictated by the power and money of the Hollywood studios.Illustrated with 10 black-and-white film stills.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1. A Cinema of Poetry -- 2. The Sacrificial Unconscious: The Red Desert to Three Colours: Blue -- 3. The Screen as Split Subject 1: Persona's Legacy -- 4. The Screen as Split Subject 2: Into the 1990s -- 5. The Camera as Double Vision: Blow-Up to La Belle Noiseuse -- 6. American Reveries: Altman, Lynch, Malick, Scorsese -- 7. Anxieties of the Masculine Sublime -- 8. The Road to Nowhere: 1990s Noir -- Endnotes -- Select Bibliography -- Index

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Contemporary Cinema is a major study of key developments in the cinema over the last thirty years. It reworks Pasolini's landmark concept of 'the cinema of poetry' to look at the transformation of film form in its encounter with society, the sacred, the subjective and the presence of the camera. Poetic cinemas are seen as creating a distincitive match in their own cultures between critical social engagement and the delirium of form. In the 1970s, the influential forms of a cinema of poetry are analysed in key features by Altman, Herzog, Malick, Scorsese, Weir, Von Trotta and Tarkovsky while in the 1980s and 1990s the emergence of new filmmakers has meant a diffusion of different cinemas of poetry using new techniques and new technologies. Of key importance here is the work of Kieslowski, Lynch, Egoyan, Campion, Greenaway, Zhang Yimou, Tran Anh Hung and Wong Kar-Wai, as well as the reinvention of science fiction and film noir in American genre. These multiple cinemas of poetry with their social commitment and stylistic delirium have created a new freshness, vitality and visual impact to outrival the mainstream genre products of the Hollywood studies which currently dominate the world.The most comprehensive study of major developments in the cinema during the last thirty years.New insights into the transformation of 1970s cinemaShows the continuing diffusion of cinemas of poetry and the most talented filmmakers of the 1980s and 1990s.Looks at the vitality of the different cinemas of poetry as aesthetic resistance to the forms of filmmaking dictated by the power and money of the Hollywood studios.Illustrated with 10 black-and-white film stills.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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