Thinking Revolution Through Film

On Audiovisual Stagings of Political Change
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-11-075375-2
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 223 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 454 g

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This book aims to redefine the relationship between film and revolution. Starting with Hannah Arendt’s thoughts on the American and French Revolution, it argues that, from a theoretical perspective, revolutions can be understood as describing a relationship between time and movement and that ultimately the spectators and not the actors in a revolution decide its outcome. Focusing on the concepts of ‘time,’ ‘movement,’ and ‘spectators,’ this study develops an understanding of film not as a medium of agitation but as a way of thinking that relates to the idea of historicity that opened up with the American and French Revolution, a way of thinking that can expand our very notion of revolution. The book explores this expansion through an analysis of three audiovisual stagings of revolution: Abel Gance’s epic on the French Revolution , Warren Beatty’s essay on the Russian Revolution , and the miniseries about the American Revolution. The author thereby offers a fresh take on the questions of revolution and historicity from the perspective of film studies.

Zielgruppe

Scholars of Film Studies, Media Studies, Political Theory, Histor

Autoren/Hrsg.

Berger, Hanno

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Revolutionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

Hanno Berger, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany.