Wall-Romana Jean Epstein

Corporeal cinema and film philosophy
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1137-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: French Film Directors Series

This is the first comprehensive study of Jean Epstein’s fiction and documentary films, film theory, and writings on poetry and homosexuality.
The book unfolds the intellectual trajectory of Epstein and restores him to the limelight of interwar world cinema, on a par with Renoir, Lang, Capra and Eisenstein.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wall-Romana, Christophe

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Series Editors’ Foreword
Introduction: Epstein at the crossroads
Chapter 1: From literary modernism to photogénie
Chapter 2: Avant-garde working class melodramas
Chapter 3: Technology, embodiment and homosexuality
Chapter 4: Brittany, the edge of the modern world
Chapter 5: Documentaries and sound films
Chapter 6: ‘A young Spinoza’: philosophy of the cinema
Conclusion: Epstein as pioneer of corporeal cinema
Filmography
Select Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Wall-Romana Christophe:
Christophe Wall-Romana is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian and affiliated Faculty in Moving Image Studies at the University of MinnesotaChristophe Wall-Romana is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian and Affiliated Faculty in Moving Image Studies at the University of Minnesota