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- 9781839987809
- Book Title
- On The Figure In General And The Body In Particular:
- ISBN
- 9781839987809
- Subject Area
- Art, Performing Arts
- Publication Name
- On the Figure in General and the Body in Particular: : Figurative Invention in Cinema
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Anthem Press
- Subject
- Film / General, Film / History & Criticism, Film & Video
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Type
- Textbook
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1 in
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- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 16 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 260 Pages
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In this selection of essays written for a variety of publications and platforms throughout the 1990s (essays, program notes, conferences), Nicole Brenez sets out and applies the tenets of what she dubs the "figurative analysis" of cinema. As the title suggests, her two main interests could broadly be summarized as the "figure" (in general) and the "body" (in particular). An actor performing on screen is, of course, a body, but Brenez goes beyond psychological or purely dramatic considerations, studying how formal elements such as framing, lighting, and editing determine what a body is and an audience's perception of it as well as how cinematic devices can be used to create new bodies - as in the science fiction films of the 1990s that posit hybrid, post-human forms. At the same time, a body can also be a collective of individuals or even themes and motifs brought together via cinematic means. The term "figure" also has a broad and rich meaning in Brenez's work, informing concepts such as "figural analysis," "figural economy," "figurative invention," or pure "figuration." While glimpses of these concepts have appeared in scattered translations over the years, this collection represents the first comprehensive and expansive selection of her writings on cinema in English. Brenez is interested in the myriad of shapes that figures take in film: shadows, silhouettes, and contours, but also themes and motifs, and how these are visually and aurally manifested. She is especially interested in the ways in which an individual film produces these figures or figurative constellations. Laying out a methodology in the book's introduction (a letter to John Ford biographer Tag Gallagher), Brenez goes on to analyze and interpret the myriad of figures found in movies by filmmakers ranging from John Woo to Paul Sharits as well as classics by Orson Welles and Sergei Eisenstein. At once rigorous and open, the originality of the films Brenez studies and her very stimulating intuitions and connections, has produced one of the major studies of cinema of the late 20th century.
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Anthem Press
ISBN-10
1839987804
ISBN-13
9781839987809
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Publication Name
On the Figure in General and the Body in Particular: : Figurative Invention in Cinema
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Film / General, Film / History & Criticism, Film & Video
Publication Year
2023
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Art, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
260 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
16 Oz
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2023-933202
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
Pn1995.9.R3
Reviews
"This is the most valuable volume by a French cinephile in English to have appeared since the translations of André Bazin and Serge Daney--a book that I believe filmgoers will still be learning from half a century from now. Brenez's originality is as stupefying as her erudition." --Jonathan Rosenbaum, American film critic, USA.
Table of Content
Introduction; Part 1: Figurative Economies, 1. Why Must the Dead Be Killed?:Observations on John Woo, 2. Capitalism: Jack Smith, 3. "Unusual Approach to Bodies": Robert Bresson with Jean Eustache, Philippe Garrel, and Monte Hellman, 4. Sketch/Skip/Excessive Synthesis: Jacques Tourneur's Cat People, Dario Argento's Suspiria, John McTiernan's Predator; Part 2: Adventures of the Classical Body in Modern Cinema, 1. S.M. Eisenstein, Bella Figura, and Formal Deflagration, 2. Anti-Bodies: Instances of the Classical Body in the Work of Jean Genet, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and Gus Van Sant, 3. Short-Circuit: Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate; Part 3: New Abstractions in Figurative Invention, 1. The Contemporary Character, 2. The Being According to the Image: Orson Welles's Citizen Kane, 3. "'Cause it sounds more French": On a Secondary Character in Maurice Pialat's Police, 4. Thefts: Robert Bresson's Pickpocket; Part 4: Summonses - Figures of the Actor, 1. The Actor as Affective Citizen: Fassbinder's Beware of a Holy Whore, 2. Lassie, Unfaithful to Dogs: Fred M. Wilcox's Lassie Come Home, 3. "Die for Mr. Jensen": John Cassavetes's A Woman Under the Influence, 4. John Woo by John Woo: The Take and the Shot; Part 5: Image Circuits, 1. Travolta Himself: Dance and the Circulation of Images - Fantasy, Phantasm, and Phantasmata, 2. Thirst: Barbara Loden's Wanda, 3. The Visual Study: The Forces of a Cinematic Form - Al Razutis, Ken Jacobs, Brian De Palma, 4. The First Shot: Philippe Garrel's Liberté, la nuit, 5. Anti-Oedipus: John Woo's Heroes Shed No Tears; Part 6: Theoretical Invention, 1. "As You Are": Representation and Figuration - Questions of Terminology in the Work of Barthes, Eisenstein, Benjamin, and Epstein, 2. The Physics of Cinema: Introduction to the Literary and Filmic Oeuvre of Paul Sharits, 3. In the Meantime: Kirk Tougas' The Politics of Perception, 4. Epilogue: The Accident; Bibliography; Index
Dewey Decimal
791.43612
Dewey Edition
23
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