The Story of the Lost Reflection: The Alienation of the Image in Western and Polish Cinema - Couverture souple

Coates

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0860918084 ISBN 13 : 9780860918080

Editeur : Verso, 1985

Synopsis

In a book which ranges freely over the work of Godard, Rosi, Altman, Copolla, Herzog, Wenders, Antonioni, Wajda, Krystoff, Zanussi and Skolimowski. Paul Coates restores the cinema to its lost heritage: that of nineteenth century supernaturalist art, the romantic notion of the living double, and the operatic ideal of 'the total work of art'.

Focusing on the surrender to a ghostly fleeting image which viewing film necessitates, Coates examines the ways in which major contemporary directors play with the ambiguous reflections that are their medium. Polish cinema's roots in the theatre and in surrealism are traced in a fresh and penetrating analysis.

The Story of the Lost Reflection makes a decisive break with currently fashionable structuralist and auteur theories by emphasising the importance of the experience of the viewer. Its publication is certain to generate controversy and not a little relief.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Paul Coates works as a translator and is the author of The Realist Fantasy and Words After Speech: a Comparative Study of Romanticism and Symbolism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verso
• Date d'édition: 1985
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0860918084
• ISBN 13: 9780860918080
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 176
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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