Title: Peter Greenaway's postmodern/poststructuralist cinema /
Authors: Willoquet-Maricondi, Paula, 1960-; Alemany-Galway, Mary, 1944-
Publisher: Scarecrow Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Greenaway, Peter Criticism and interpretation.
Abstract: "Since the 1960s, British multi-media artist Peter Greenaway has shocked and intrigued audiences with his avant-garde approach to filmmaking and other artistic ventures. From early experimental films to provocative features, Greenaway has deployed strategies associated with structuralist cinema only to challenge or critique the very limits of that cinema, and of film in general." "In this collection of essays, scholars from a variety of disciplines explore various postmodern and poststructuralist aspects of Greenaway's films, starting with his early shorts and delving into his feature-length works, inclnding The Draughtman's Contract, The Belly of an Architect, A Zed and Two Noughts, The Cook, the Thief; His Wile and Her Lover, The Baby of Macon, and The Pillow Book. Other artistic productions, including his paintings and installutions, are also discussed. These essays examine the filmmaker's position within British and avunt-garde cinema and his interest in constructing and deconstructing representational systems."--book jacket.
Contents: Introduction: a postmodern/poststructuralist cinema -- From British cinema to mega-cinema / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi -- Peter Greenaway and the failure of cinema / John Di Stefano -- Neo-Baroque imaging in Peter Greenaway's cinema / Cristina Degli-Esposti Reinert -- Tabula for a catastrophe: Peter Greenaway's The falls and Foucault's Heterotopia / Bart Testa -- Postmodernism and the French new novel: the influence of Last year at Marienbad on The draughtsman's contract / Mary Alemany-Galway -- Rising from the ruins: interpreting the missing formal device within The belly of an architect / Michael Ostwald -- Z is for zebra, zoo, zed, and zygote, or is it possible to live with ambivalence? / Jean Petrolle -- Prospero's books, postmodernism, and the reenchantment of the world / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi -- The crisis of commentary: tilting at windmills in Peter Greenaway's The cook, the thief, his wife and her love / Dayana Stetco -- Theater, ritual, and materiality in Peter Greenaway's The baby of Mâcon / Lia M. Hotchkiss -- Skin deep: fins-de-siècle and new beginnings in Peter Greenaway's The pillow book / Bridget Elliott and Anthony Purdy -- Body and text & Eight a half women: a Laconic black comedy / Peter Greenaway -- Two interviews with Peter Greenaway / Paula Willoquet-Maricondi -- The tulse luper suitcases: Peter Greenaway's left luggage / Heidi Peeters -- Greenaway, the Netherlands, and the conspiracies of history / David Pascoe.