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Thinking Revolution Through Film : On Audiovisual Stagings of Political Change / Hanno Berger.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cinepoetics – English edition ; 10Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (X, 223 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110753752
  • 9783110754735
  • 9783110754704
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.436
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Theory of Revolution: Prolegomena -- 3 The “Machine Which Thinks Temporally” -- 4 NAPOLÉON: The Sublime Conceptualization of Revolution -- 5 REDS: The Russian Revolution in Hollywood -- 6 JOHN ADAMS: Before the Birth Comes the Revolution -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Name Index -- Film Index
Summary: This book aims to redefine the relationship between film and revolution. Starting with Hannah Arendt’s thoughts on the American and French Revolution, it argues that, from a theoretical perspective, revolutions can be understood as describing a relationship between time and movement and that ultimately the spectators and not the actors in a revolution decide its outcome. Focusing on the concepts of ‘time,’ ‘movement,’ and ‘spectators,’ this study develops an understanding of film not as a medium of agitation but as a way of thinking that relates to the idea of historicity that opened up with the American and French Revolution, a way of thinking that can expand our very notion of revolution. The book explores this expansion through an analysis of three audiovisual stagings of revolution: Abel Gance’s epic on the French Revolution Napoléon, Warren Beatty’s essay on the Russian Revolution Reds, and the miniseries John Adams about the American Revolution. The author thereby offers a fresh take on the questions of revolution and historicity from the perspective of film studies.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Theory of Revolution: Prolegomena -- 3 The “Machine Which Thinks Temporally” -- 4 NAPOLÉON: The Sublime Conceptualization of Revolution -- 5 REDS: The Russian Revolution in Hollywood -- 6 JOHN ADAMS: Before the Birth Comes the Revolution -- 7 Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Name Index -- Film Index

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This book aims to redefine the relationship between film and revolution. Starting with Hannah Arendt’s thoughts on the American and French Revolution, it argues that, from a theoretical perspective, revolutions can be understood as describing a relationship between time and movement and that ultimately the spectators and not the actors in a revolution decide its outcome. Focusing on the concepts of ‘time,’ ‘movement,’ and ‘spectators,’ this study develops an understanding of film not as a medium of agitation but as a way of thinking that relates to the idea of historicity that opened up with the American and French Revolution, a way of thinking that can expand our very notion of revolution. The book explores this expansion through an analysis of three audiovisual stagings of revolution: Abel Gance’s epic on the French Revolution Napoléon, Warren Beatty’s essay on the Russian Revolution Reds, and the miniseries John Adams about the American Revolution. The author thereby offers a fresh take on the questions of revolution and historicity from the perspective of film studies.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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