Magic Realism, World Cinema, and the Avant-Garde
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-23229-7 (ISBN)
Magic realism is vast in scope, spanning almost a century, and is often confused with neighbouring styles of literature or art, most notably surrealism. The fascinating conditions of modernist Europe are complex and contradictory, a spirit that magic realism has taken on as it travels far and wide. The filmmakers and writers in this book acknowledge the importance of feeling, atmosphere, and mood to subtly provoke and resist global capitalism. Theirs is the history of magic-realist cinema. The book explores this history through the modernist avant-garde in search of a new theory of cinematic magic realism. It uncovers a resistant, geopolitical form of world cinema – moving from Europe, through Latin America and the former Soviet Union, to Thailand – that emerges from these ideas.
This book is invaluable to any reader interested in world modernism(s) in relation to contemporary cinema and geopolitics. Its sustained analysis of film as a sensory, intermedial medium is of interest to scholars working across the visual arts, literature, critical theory, and film-philosophy.
Felicity Gee is a senior lecturer in Modernism and World Cinema at the University of Exeter, UK. Her research interests include surrealism, women theorists and critical theory, and film-philosophy. Her work takes an interdisciplinary approach, spanning film, art history, literature, and critical theory. Recent publications include articles on Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Vera Chytilová, and authorial affect in Akira Kurosawa’s The Bad Sleep Well.
Foreword: Magic realism – The chronicle of a discourse ; 1. Introduction ; 2. Magischer Realismus and the ‘demon fantastic’: painting, photography, film ; 3. Ethno-magic-realist documentary: ecstatic practice ; 4. Lo real maravilloso americano: prismatic reality and the screen ; 5. Magic realism: the prehensile toe – Jameson, Magritte, and affect ; 6. ‘Soviet magic realism’ and world cinema ; 7. Hyperreality, understatement, atmosphere, and ambivalence; Coda
| Erscheinungsdatum | 23.04.2021 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Remapping World Cinema |
| Zusatzinfo | 1 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 2 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Gewicht | 353 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-138-23229-7 / 1138232297 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-23229-7 / 9781138232297 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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