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Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema
Antoine de Baecque
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Description for Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema
Hardback. Translator(s): Vinsonneau, Ninon; Magidoff, Jonathan. Series: European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism. Num Pages: 424 pages, 196 illus. BIC Classification: 3JJ; APF; HBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 178 x 28. Weight in Grams: 454.
Antoine de Baecque proposes a new historiography of cinema, exploring film as a visual archive of the twentieth century, as well as history's imprint on the cinematic image. Whether portraying events that occurred in the past or stories unfolding before their eyes, certain twentieth-century filmmakers used a particular mise-en-scene to give form to history, becoming in the process historians themselves. Historical events, in turn, irrupted into cinema. This double movement, which de Baecque terms the "cinematographic form of history," disrupts the very material of film, much like historical events disturb the narrative of human progress. De Baecque defines, locates, and ... Read more
Antoine de Baecque proposes a new historiography of cinema, exploring film as a visual archive of the twentieth century, as well as history's imprint on the cinematic image. Whether portraying events that occurred in the past or stories unfolding before their eyes, certain twentieth-century filmmakers used a particular mise-en-scene to give form to history, becoming in the process historians themselves. Historical events, in turn, irrupted into cinema. This double movement, which de Baecque terms the "cinematographic form of history," disrupts the very material of film, much like historical events disturb the narrative of human progress. De Baecque defines, locates, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Series
European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231156509
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V9780231156509
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About Antoine de Baecque
Antoine de Baecque is a historian and film critic and professor of cinema studies at the University of Paris X Nanterre. His books in English include Truffaut: A Biography; The Body Politic: Corporeal Metaphor in Revolutionary France, 1770-1800; Glory and Terror; and A History of Democracy in Europe. He has served as culture editor for the newspaper Liberation and as ... Read more
Reviews for Camera Historica: The Century in Cinema
De Baecque is one of our most meticulous and enterprising film historians, and in Camera Historica, he finds a new way of looking at the two sides of his interest, film and history, making each a clarifying reflection of the other. As a particular bonus, he's especially good on important filmmakers who emerged during the 1960s, such as the Nouvelle ... Read more