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Film Fables
Jacques Ranciere
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Description for Film Fables
Paperback. Series: Bloomsbury Revelations. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; HPN; HPX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). .
In Film Fables Jacques Ranciere turns his critical eye to the history of modern cinema. Combining an extraordinary breadth of analysis with an attentiveness to detail born from an obvious love of cinema, Ranciere shows us new ways of looking at and interpreting film. His analysis moves effortlessly from Eisenstein's and Murnau's transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang's confrontation with television, from the classical poetics of Mann's Westerns to Ray's romantic poetics of the image, from Rossellini's neo-realism to Deleuze's philosophy of the cinema. The book also includes extended commentaries on the work of Hitchcock, Godard, Vertov and ... Read more
In Film Fables Jacques Ranciere turns his critical eye to the history of modern cinema. Combining an extraordinary breadth of analysis with an attentiveness to detail born from an obvious love of cinema, Ranciere shows us new ways of looking at and interpreting film. His analysis moves effortlessly from Eisenstein's and Murnau's transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang's confrontation with television, from the classical poetics of Mann's Westerns to Ray's romantic poetics of the image, from Rossellini's neo-realism to Deleuze's philosophy of the cinema. The book also includes extended commentaries on the work of Hitchcock, Godard, Vertov and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Bloomsbury Revelations
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781474270809
SKU
V9781474270809
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About Jacques Ranciere
Jacques Ranciere taught at the University of Paris VIII, France, from 1969 to 2000, occupying the Chair of Aesthetics and Politics from 1990 until his retirement.
Reviews for Film Fables
A compelling study that will leave an enduring mark on film and media studies.
Tom Conley, Harvard University, USA
A remarkable and beautiful book which, with immense elegance, sets aside the difficulties of film theory to recreate a liberating, critical and poetic history of cinema.
Adrian Rifkin, Professor of Visual Culture Media, Middlesex University, UK, and Editor ... Read more
Tom Conley, Harvard University, USA
A remarkable and beautiful book which, with immense elegance, sets aside the difficulties of film theory to recreate a liberating, critical and poetic history of cinema.
Adrian Rifkin, Professor of Visual Culture Media, Middlesex University, UK, and Editor ... Read more