On the Figure in General and the Body in Particular: Figurative Invention in Cinema - Couverture souple

Brenez, Nicole

 
9781839998867: On the Figure in General and the Body in Particular: Figurative Invention in Cinema
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ISBN 10 : 1839998865 ISBN 13 : 9781839998867
Editeur : Anthem Press, 2026

Synopsis

Films fill our imagination with figures, figurines, and talismans. They ceaselessly rework the same archetypes and invent troubling prototypes – especially when they establish a deeper relationship to reality. How do we understand these presences that are both so characteristic and so diverse in cinema? How does film deal with bodies, movements, and gestures? Why are we so drawn to these shadows, silhouettes, and hypothetical beings? What organizes the figurative values at work in a film? How do cinematic creatures circulate from film to film and image to image? How does film articulate the links between the abstract and figurative? Is it possible to write a history of figurative forms? Starting from films themselves and works that are both classical (Sergei Eisenstein, Roberto Rossellini, Orson Welles) and contemporary (Abel Ferrara, Brian DePalma, Patricia Mazuy), celebrated (Robert Bresson, John Cassavetes, Ken Jacobs, Paul Sharits) and overlooked (Al Razutis, Jean Genet, Monte Hellman, and John Travolta), from auteurs as well as aesthetic questions (representations of dance, the naked body, character development…), the essays in this volume, most available for the first in English, aim to open a field that has been neglected by analysis, while also suggesting the tools necessary to understanding figurative phenomena specific to cinema.

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À propos de l?auteur

Nicole Brenez is a professor of film studies at the University of Paris 3/Sorbonne Nouvelle and the Director of the Department “Analyse et Culture cinématographique” at Paris’ film school La Fémis since 2017. She has curated avant-garde film series at the Cinémathèquefrançaise since 1996 and is the author and editor of numerous books on film.  

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Éditeur
Anthem Press
Date d'édition
2026
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1839998865
ISBN 13 
9781839998867
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
260
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9781839987809: On the Figure in General and the Body in Particular: Figurative Invention in Cinema

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ISBN 10 :  1839987804 ISBN 13 :  9781839987809
Editeur : Anthem Press, 2023
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