TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ravetto-Biagioli,Kriss
TI  - Mythopoetic Cinema: On the Ruins of European Identity 
SN  - 9780231182188
AV  - PN1993.5.E8 R38 2017
U1  - 791.43094 23
PY  - 2017///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Columbia University Press, 
KW  - Motion pictures
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Europe
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; 1. FLOATING ON THE BORDERS OF EUROPE --; 2. O MEGALEXANDROS --; 3. IN BALKAN --; 4. NOTRE MUSIQUE --; EPILOGUE --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In Mythopoetic Cinema, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli explores how contemporary European filmmakers treat mythopoetics as a critical practice that questions the constant need to provide new identities, a new Europe, and with it a new European cinema after the fall of the Soviet Union. Mythopoetic cinema questions the perpetual branding of movements, ideas, and individuals. Examining the work of Jean-Luc Godard, Alexander Sokurov, Marina Abramović, and Theodoros Angelopoulos, Ravetto-Biagioli argues that these disparate artists provide a critical reflection on what constitutes Europe in the age of neoliberalism. Their films reflect not only the violence of recent years but also help question dominant models of nation building that result in the general failure to respond ethically to rising ethnocentrism.In close readings of such films as Sokurov's Russian Ark (2002) and Godard's Notre Musique (2004), Ravetto-Biagioli demonstrates the ways in which these filmmakers engage and evaluate the recent reconceptualization of Europe's borders, mythic figures, and identity paradoxes. Her work not only analyzes how these filmmakers thematically treat the idea of Europe but also how their work questions the ability of the moving image to challenge conventional ways of understanding history
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7312/rave18218
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231544108
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231544108/original
ER  -