Improvising cinema

This spirited volume explores the history and diversity of improvisation in the cinema, including works by Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, and Nobuhiro Suwa. Gilles Mouëllic examines improvisational practices that can be specifically attributed to the cinema and argues in favors of their powers as ins...

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Main Author: Mouëllic, Gilles
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2013]©2013, 2013
Series:Film culture in transition
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Collection: JSTOR Open Access Books - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This spirited volume explores the history and diversity of improvisation in the cinema, including works by Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, and Nobuhiro Suwa. Gilles Mouëllic examines improvisational practices that can be specifically attributed to the cinema and argues in favors of their powers as instigators of unprecedented forms of expression. Improvising Cinema reflects both on the permanence of attempting improvisation and the relationship between technology and aesthetics. Mouëllic concludes preservation becomes even more invaluable in the case of improvisation, as the creative act exists
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (200 pages)
ISBN:9089645519
9789089645517