Farocki/Godard. Film as Theory

There is a tension between the requirements of theoretical abstraction and the capacities of the film medium, where everything that we see on screen is concrete: A train arriving at a station, a tree, bodies, faces. Since the complex theories of montage in Soviet cinema, however, there have continuo...

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Main Author: Pantenburg, Volker
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam University Press 2015
Series:Film Culture in Transition
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Collection: OAPEN - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:There is a tension between the requirements of theoretical abstraction and the capacities of the film medium, where everything that we see on screen is concrete: A train arriving at a station, a tree, bodies, faces. Since the complex theories of montage in Soviet cinema, however, there have continuously been attempts to express theoretical issues by combining shots, thus creating a visual form of thinking. This book brings together two major filmmakers-French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard and German avant-gardist Harun Farocki to explore the fundamental tension between theoretical abstraction and the capacities of film itself, a medium where everything seen onscreen is necessarily concrete. Volker Pantenburg shows how these two filmmakers explored the potential of combined shots and montage to create "film as theory."
Item Description:Creative Commons (cc), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/
Physical Description:292 p.
ISBN:9789089648914