Film after film
Subtitle: or, what became of 21st-century cinema?
By: J. Hoberman
Publisher: Verso
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781844677511
Subjects: Motion pictures; Reviews; History; Philosophy; Digital media
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A post-photographic cinema. The myth of "the myth of total cinema"; title: The matrix: "a prison for your mind"; title: The new realness; title: Quid est veritas: the reality of unspeakable suffering; title: Social network; title: Postscript: total cinema redux; title: A chronicle of the Bush years. 2001: after September 11; title: 2002: the war on terror begins; title: 2003: invading Iraq; title: 2004: Bush's victory; title: 2005: looking for the Muslim world; title: 2006: September 11, the anniversary; title: 2007: what was Iraq and where?; title: 2008: the election; title: Notes toward a syllabus. In praise of love (Jean-Luc Godard, 2001); title: Avalon (Mamoru Oshii, 2001); title: Avant-garde goes digital: Corpus callosum, Cotton Candy, and Razzle Dazzle; title: Russian ark (Alexander Sokurov, 2002); title: Ten (Abbas Kiarostami, 2002); title: Goodbye Dragon Inn (Tsai Ming-Liang, 2002); title: Dogville (Lars Von Trier, 2003); title: The world (Jia Zhangke, 2004); title: Battle in heaven (Carlos Reygadas, 2005); title: The death of Mr. Lazarescu (Cristi Puiu, 2005); title: Day night day night (Julia Loktev, 2006); title: Southland tales (Richard Kelly, 2006); title: Inland empire (David Lynch, 2006); title: Between darkness and light (after William Blake) (Douglas Gordon, 1997/2006); title: Lol (Joe Swanberg, 2006); title: Flight of the red balloon (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, 2007); title: Hunger (Steve McQueen, 2008); title: Opening ceremonies, Beijing Olympics (August 8, 2008); title: Carlos (Olivier Assayas, 2010); title: The strange case of Angelica (Manoel de Oliveira, 2010); title: Once upon a time in Anatolia (Nuri Bilge Ceylan, 2011).