The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: Aug 11, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780231170727
Description: Hermann Kappelhoff here casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to individual experience (which, he argues, existing political institutions cannot), he reads films by Sergei Eisenstein and Pedro Almodóvar, among others, to demonstrate how cinema situates spectators within society.
Notes: Source title: The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism (Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts)