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Amsterdam University Press
2015
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Medientyp: | Buch, E-Book |
Umfang: | 1 electronic resource (292 p.) |
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Zugang: | Open Access |
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9789089648914
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Sprache: | Englisch |
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Kollektion: | DOAB Directory of Open Access Books |
Anmerkungen: | English |
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." |