Filmmakers on Film

Global Perspectives

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Produktbeschreibung

This book bridges the gap between film theory and filmmakers' thoughts and poetics, and proposes a new way to address and elaborate film theory. It brings together primary sources by filmmakers themselves, drawing on their films, interviews, books, texts, and manifestos. Divided into three parts, the book covers the main aspects of this approach. Part one discusses the concepts of 'author' and 'filmmaker'. Part two evaluates the creative processes of a broad range of filmmakers, including Víctor Gaviria (Colombia), Kleber Mendonça Filho (Brazil), Jean-Luc Godard and Agnès Varda (France), Abbas Kiarostami (Iran) Pa. Ranjith (India), Andy Warhol (USA), Maya Deren (Ukraine-USA) and Nuri Bilge Ceylan (Turkey). The final part examines filmmakers' various techniques, particularly the use of multi-images, after-(dialectical)-images, and the use of sound as a sensorial and narrative tool. This curated selection of writings, with contributors from a range of countries including the USA, UK, India, China, Portugal, Brazil, Belgium and New Zealand, reflects the global perspective of this new approach. The volume also discusses the ways in which filmmakers influence each other, the spectator as seen by filmmakers, and ways to critically address a filmography that takes into account filmmakers other than the director.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. September 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 702g
• ISBN-13: 9781839024870
• ISBN-10: 1839024879
• Artikelnr.: 67133727

Autorenporträt

André Rui Graça is Assistant Professor at University of Beira Interior, Portugal. He publishes frequently, in both academic and extra-academic contexts, about topics related to Portuguese cinema, cultural policies, and filmmakers' theory. Manuela Penafria is Associate Professor at University of Beira Interior, Portugal. She publishes on film theory, Portuguese cinema and documentary, has been a jury member for bodies including the FCT-Foundation for Science and Technology and is now collaborating in the preparation of pedagogical manuals for the Portuguese National Cinema Plan. Eduardo Baggio is Associate Professor at Unespar - Paraná State University, Brazil. He is a member of the board of the Brazilian Society of Film and Audiovisual Studies and has published on Brazilian cinema, creative processes in cinema and documentary.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements List of Contributors Foreword by Lúcia Nagib Introduction
A proposal for approaching Film Theory and filmmakers - André Rui Graça,
Manuela Penafria & Eduardo Tulio Baggio I FILMMAKERS ON FILM: SETTING THE
FIELD 1. From the Concept of Author to the Concept of Filmmaker - Eduardo
Tulio Baggio (Paraná State University, Brazil) 2. Film as thought: notes on
the role of the researcher in the Filmmakers on Film approach, from the
perspective of Karim Aïnouz's films and interviews - Marcelo Carvalho
(Paraná Tuiuti University, Brazil) 3. The spectator and the filmmaking
process: reflections based on case studies- André Rui Graça (Lusófona
University, Portugal) & Manuela Penafria (University of Beira Interior,
LabCom-Communication and Arts, Portugal) II POETICS AND FILMMAKING
PROCESSES 4. The dark light of poetry: Víctor Gaviria's poetics of
childhood - Liliana Galindo Orrego (Johns Hopkins University, USA) 5. Music
in Kleber Mendonça Filho's Feature Films: An Analysis of the Creative
Process - Rodrigo Carreiro (Pernambuco Federal University, Brazil) & Breno
Alvarenga (Pernambuco Federal University, Brazil) 6. Films on Filmmaking:
Jean-Luc Godard and Abbas Kiarostami's Auto-Commentaries Scénario du Film
Passion (1982) and Ten on Ten (2004) - Karel Pletinck (Theatre, Film and
Literature Studies, University of Antwerp, Belgium) 7. Andy Warhol's legacy
and body representation in contemporary cinema - Edson Pereira da Costa
Júnior (University of São Paulo, Brazil) 8. Madame Cinéma: Agnès Varda, or
a Portrait of the Artist as an Ageless Woman - Fátima Chinita (Lisbon
Polytechnic Institute, Portugal) 9. The Struggles and Rise of the Dalit
Protagonists - Cinematic Representations in the Tamil Films of the Director
Pa. Ranjith - Amutha Manavalan (Institute of Communications and Media
Studies, St. Joseph's College, India) 10. From Photographic Servitude to
Cinematic Emancipation: The Poetic Films of Maya Deren - Amresh Sinha (The
School of Visual Arts, USA) 11. Establishing reality: mode of production
and surrealism in the cinema of Nuri Bilge Ceylan - Sezen Gürüf Basekim
(Kastamonu University, Turkey) III FILMS AND FILMMAKERS' WRITINGS AS ACTS
OF THEORY 12. Reflecting on a public debate and its aftermath: Jiang Hao,
his writings in the 1980s and his film practices in the 1990s - Lingling
Yao (School of Foreign Studies at the Capital University of Economics and
Business in Beijing, China) 13. Alexander Kluge's 'Film in the mind of the
spectator' or after-(dialectical)-images in News from Ideological
Antiquity: Marx - Eisenstein - Capital - James Hellings (University of
Reading, UK) 14. The multi-image: cinematic collage as revelation and
revolution - Chris Gerrard (Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design,
Scotland) 15. Seeing through the kaleidoscope - Wim Wenders and his
collaborators in Lisbon Story and Inventing Peace: A Dialogue on Perception
- Olivier Delers (University of Richmond, USA) 16. Chantal Akerman's Words
and Images: the avant-garde of theory and filmmaking - André Rui Graça
(Lusófona University, Portugal) 17. 'Sculpting everyday life' and the lake
as a metaphor: towards a documentary filmmaking history - Manuela Penafria
(University of Beira Interior, LabCom-Communication and Arts, Portugal) 18.
To Contest the Deafness of the Gaze: The Miseducation of the Senses and the
Unreliable Reality in Lucrecia Martel's Films - Natalia Christofoletti
Barrenha (UNICAMP-Campinas State University, Brazil) Bibliography
Filmography Index