Thinking Revolution Through Film (eBook)

On Audiovisual Stagings of Political Change

Hanno Berger (Autor)

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2022
233 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-075473-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book aims to redefine the relationship between film and revolution. Starting with Hannah Arendt's thoughts on the American and French Revolution, it argues that, from a theoretical perspective, revolutions can be understood as describing a relationship between time and movement and that ultimately the spectators and not the actors in a revolution decide its outcome. Focusing on the concepts of 'time,' 'movement,' and 'spectators,' this study develops an understanding of film not as a medium of agitation but as a way of thinking that relates to the idea of historicity that opened up with the American and French Revolution, a way of thinking that can expand our very notion of revolution. The book explores this expansion through an analysis of three audiovisual stagings of revolution: Abel Gance's epic on the French Revolution Napoléon, Warren Beatty's essay on the Russian Revolution Reds, and the miniseries John Adams about the American Revolution. The author thereby offers a fresh take on the questions of revolution and historicity from the perspective of film studies.

Hanno Berger, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 20.9.2022
• Reihe/Serie: Cinepoetics – English edition
• Reihe/Serie: Cinepoetics – English edition
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Zusatzinfo: 1 b/w and 2 col. ill.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Cinematic Thinking • French Film Theory • Hannah Arendt • Revolution
• ISBN-10: 3-11-075473-8 / 3110754738
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-075473-5 / 9783110754735