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Beteiligte: Pantenburg, Volker (auth)
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Amsterdam University Press 2015
Medientyp: Buch, E-Book

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Umfang: 1 electronic resource (292 p.)
Zugang: Open Access
ISBN: 9789089648914
Sprache: Englisch
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Anmerkungen: English
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There is a tension between the requirements of theoretical abstraction and the capacities of the film medium, where everything that we see on screen is concrete: A train arriving at a station, a tree, bodies, faces. Since the complex theories of montage in Soviet cinema, however, there have continuously been attempts to express theoretical issues by combining shots, thus creating a visual form of thinking. This book brings together two major filmmakers-French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard and German avant-gardist Harun Farocki to explore the fundamental tension between theoretical abstraction and the capacities of film itself, a medium where everything seen onscreen is necessarily concrete. Volker Pantenburg shows how these two filmmakers explored the potential of combined shots and montage to create "film as theory."