Camera Historica

The Century in Cinema

Antoine de Baecque (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

424 Seiten

2012
Columbia University Press (Verlag)
978-0-231-15651-6 (ISBN)

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Antoine de Baecque proposes a new historiography of cinema, exploring film as a visual archive of the twentieth century, as well as history's imprint on the cinematic image. Whether portraying events that occurred in the past or stories unfolding before their eyes, certain twentieth-century filmmakers used a particular mise-en-scene to give form to history, becoming in the process historians themselves. Historical events, in turn, irrupted into cinema. This double movement, which de Baecque terms the "cinematographic form of history," disrupts the very material of film, much like historical events disturb the narrative of human progress.
De Baecque defines, locates, and interprets cinematographic forms in seven distinct bodies of cinema: 1950s modern cinema and its conjuring of the morbid trauma of war; French New Wave and its style, which became the negative imprint of the malaise felt by young contemporaries of the Algerian War; post-Communist Russian films, or the "de-modern" works of catastroika; contemporary Hollywood films that attach themselves to the master fiction of 9/11; the characteristic mise en forme of filmmaker Sacha Guitry, who, in Si Versailles m'etait conte (1954), filmed French history from inside its chateau; the work of Jean-Luc Godard, who evoked history through his own museum memory of the twentieth century; and the achievements of Peter Watkins, the British filmmaker who reported on history like a war correspondent. De Baecque's introduction clearly lays out his theoretical framework, a profoundly brilliant conceptualization of the many ways cinema and history relate.

Antoine de Baecque is a historian and film critic and professor of cinema studies at the University of Paris X Nanterre. His books in English include Truffaut: A Biography; The Body Politic: Corporeal Metaphor in Revolutionary France, 1770-1800; Glory and Terror; and A History of Democracy in Europe. He has served as culture editor for the newspaper Liberation and as editor in chief of Cahiers du cinema. Ninon Vinsonneau teaches American culture and cinema at Ecole Centrale Paris. Jonathan Magidoff teaches history at Sciences Po Paris.

Prelude: The Tree of History Introduction: The Cinematographic Forms of History 1. Foreclosed Forms: How Images of Mass Death Reemerged in Modern Cinema 2. From Versailles to the Silver Screen: Sacha Guitry, Historian of France 3. "Me? Uh, Nothing!" The French New Wave, Politics, and History 4. Peter Watkins, Live from History: The Films, Style, and Method of Cinema's Special Correspondent 5. The Theory of Sparks: A History in Images, According to Jean-Luc Godard 6. Demodern Aesthetics: Filming the End of Communism 7. America Unraveled: Master Fictions in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema Conclusion: All Histories Are Possible Notes Illustration Credits Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.3.2012
Reihe/Serie	European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Übersetzer	Jonathan Magidoff, Ninon Vinsonneau
Zusatzinfo	196 illus.
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	178 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Geschichtstheorie / Historik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-231-15651-0 / 0231156510
ISBN-13	978-0-231-15651-6 / 9780231156516
Zustand	Neuware