Jean Epstein
"If cinema can be approached as poetry and philosophy, it is because of Jean Epstein. Cocteau, Buñuel (who was his assistant), Hitchcock, Pasolini and Godard, and theoreticians Kracauer, Deleuze and Rancière are directly influenced by Epstein's pioneering film work, writings, and concepts. This book is the first in English to examine his oeuvre comprehensively. An avant-garde artist and an anti-elitist intellectual, Epstein wanted to craft moments of pure transformative cinema. Using familiar g…
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- Full title :Jean Epstein / Christophe Wall-Romana.
Summary
"If cinema can be approached as poetry and philosophy, it is because of Jean Epstein. Cocteau, Buñuel (who was his assistant), Hitchcock, Pasolini and Godard, and theoreticians Kracauer, Deleuze and Rancière are directly influenced by Epstein's pioneering film work, writings, and concepts. This book is the first in English to examine his oeuvre comprehensively. An avant-garde artist and an anti-elitist intellectual, Epstein wanted to craft moments of pure transformative cinema. Using familiar genres - melodramas and documentaries - he hoped to heal viewers of all classes and hasten social utopia. A lover of cinema as cognitive and sensorial technology, and a poet of the screen, he pushed cinematography - as photogénie - towards the experimental sublime, through daring close-ups, rhythmic montage, slow motion, even reverse motion."--Publisher's website.
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- Publication Date:2013.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Manchester University Press
- Place of Publication:Manchester
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2013.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiv, 224 p. :) : il.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781526111371, 1526111373
- oclc:on1105498045
- Dewey Decimal:791
Table of Contents
Introduction : Epstein at the crossroads -- From literary modernism to photogenie -- Avant-garde working-class melodramas -- Technology, embodiment, and homosexuality -- Brittany, the edge of the modern world -- Documentaries and sound films -- 'A young Spinoza' : Epstein's philosophy of the cinema -- Conclusion : Epstein as pioneer of corporeal cinema.
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