The Art of Seeing, the Art of Listening : The Politics of Representation in the Work of Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet
by
Ursula Boser
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Medien und Fiktionen
ISBN-10
3631523521
ISBN-13
9783631523520
Publisher
Peter Lang GmbH
Imprint
Peter Lang GmbH
Country of Manufacture
DE
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 2nd, 2004
Print length
242 Pages
Weight
394 grams
Dimensions
15.00 x 21.00 x 1.30 cms
Product Classification:
Film theory & criticismFilm history, theory or criticism
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Straub/Huillet’s work challenges received notions of film. This study takes a feature which is common to all of their films as its starting point for analysing this challenge: all are based on existing works of art. The author investigates how Kafka’s writing, music by Schoenberg and Bach and Cézanne’s painting engender alternative modes of filmic representation. In these, the shape of time and space and the material features of sounds and images engage the audience’s attention; they sensitise the viewer to the material inscriptions of human existence and an utopian potential. It is in this sense that these films are deeply political. By focusing on formal and stylistic features, and the interplay between the films and the works of art which they are based on, this volume responds to the films’ invitation to see and hear differently.
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