World cinema and the ethics of realism
By: by Lucia Nagib
Publisher: Continuum International Pub. Group Inc
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
ISBN-13: 9781441137838; 9781441165831
Description: World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism is a highly original study. Traditional views of cinematic realism usually draw on the so-called classical cinema and its allegiance to narrative mimesis, but Nagib challenges this, drawing instead on the filmmaker's commitment to truth and to the film medium's material bond with the real. Starting from the premise that world cinema's creative peaks are governed by an ethics of realism, Nagib conducts comparative case studies picked from world new waves, such as the Japanese New Wave, the French nouvelle vague, the Cinema Novo, the New German Cinema, the Russo-Cuban Revolutionary Cinema, the Portuguese self-performing auteur and the Inuit Indigenous Cinema. Drawing upon Badiou and Rancière, World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism revisits and reformulates several fundamental concepts in film studies, such as illusionism, identification, apparatus, alienation effects, presentation and representation. Its groundbreaking scholarship takes film theory in a bold new direction.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Physical cinema. The end of the other; title: The immaterial difference : Werner Herzog revisited; title: The reality of the medium. Conceptual realism in Land in trance and I am Cuba; title: The work of art in progress : an analysis of delicate crime; title: The ethics of desire. The realm of the senses, the ethical imperative and the politics of pleasure; title: Hara and Kobayashi's "private documentaries"; title: The self-performing auteur : ethics in João César Monteiro.