Christophe Wall-Romana

Jean Epstein

Corporeal cinema and film philosophy

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first comprehensive study of Jean Epstein's fiction and documentary films, film theory, and writings on poetry and homosexuality. The book unfolds the intellectual trajectory of Epstein and restores him to the limelight of interwar world cinema, on a par with Renoir, Lang, Capra and Eisenstein.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 242
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 129mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 262g
• ISBN-13: 9781784993481
• ISBN-10: 1784993484
• Artikelnr.: 44750110

Autorenporträt

Christophe Wall-Romana is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian and Affiliated Faculty in Moving Image Studies at the University of Minnesota

Inhaltsangabe

Series Editors' Foreword Introduction: Epstein at the crossroads Chapter
1: From literary modernism to photogénie Chapter 2: Avant-garde working
class melodramas Chapter 3: Technology, embodiment and homosexuality
Chapter 4: Brittany, the edge of the modern world Chapter 5: Documentaries
and sound films Chapter 6: 'A young Spinoza': philosophy of the cinema
Conclusion: Epstein as pioneer of corporeal cinema Filmography Select
Bibliography Index