TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berger,Hanno
TI  - Thinking Revolution Through Film: On Audiovisual Stagings of Political Change 
T2  - Cinepoetics – English edition ,
SN  - 9783110753752
U1  - 791.436 
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - Revolutions in motion pictures
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Cinematic Thinking
KW  - French Film Theory
KW  - Hannah Arendt
KW  - Revolution
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110754704
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110754704
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110754704/original
ER  -