The politics and poetics of cinematic realism

The politics and poetics of cinematic realism /

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 Eisen...

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Main Author: Kappelhoff, Hermann (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Series:Columbia themes in philosophy, social criticism, and the arts.
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Political aspects.
Politics in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Aesthetics.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PHILOSOPHY > Aesthetics.
Motion pictures > Aesthetics
Motion pictures > Political aspects
Politics in motion pictures
Film
Realismus
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Table of Contents:
  • Table of Contents
  • Preface and Acknowledgments
  • 1. Poetics and Politics
  • 2. Before the War: The Avant-garde, Film, and the Utopia of Art
  • 3. After the War: Cinema as the Site of Historical Consciousness
  • 4. After '68: The Politics of Form
  • 5. Beyond Classical Hollywood Cinema
  • 6. A New Sensitivity
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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