Christophe Wall-Romana

Jean Epstein (eBook, ePUB)

Corporeal cinema and film philosophy

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Produktbeschreibung

If cinema can be approached as poetry and philosophy, it is because of Jean Epstein. Cocteau, Buñuel (who was his assistant), Hitchcock, Pasolini and Godard, and theoreticians Kracauer, Deleuze and Rancière are directly influenced by Epstein's pioneering film work, writings, and concepts. This book is the first in English to examine his oeuvre comprehensively.

An avant-garde artist and an anti-elitist intellectual, Epstein wanted to craft moments of pure transformative cinema. Using familiar genres - melodramas and documentaries - he hoped to heal viewers of all classes and hasten social utopia. A lover of cinema as cognitive and sensorial technology, and a poet of the screen, he pushed cinematography - as photogénie - towards the experimental sublime, through daring close-ups, rhythmic montage, slow motion, even reverse motion.

Polish-born, half-Jewish, and the author of a treatise on homosexuality, Epstein has been unfairly relegated to the shadows of film history. This book restores him to the limelight of interwar world cinema, on a par with Renoir, Lang, Capra and Eisenstein.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526111364
• Artikelnr.: 48795451

Autorenporträt

Christophe Wall-Romana

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