Rites of Realism

by Margulies, Ivone; Brazin, Andre (CON); Cohen, Mark Andrew (CON); Daney, Serge (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780822330660
• ISBN10: 0822330660
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Duke Univ Pr

Summary

"These exciting and varied essays probe the relations between cinematic realism and representations of the body--above all the body as a guarantor (or not) of a link between images and the real. As in the best collections, the essays present distinctive points-of-view, yet they cohere around a compelling through-line, offering illumination and insight beyond just the sum of their parts."--Leo Charney, author of "Empty Moments: Cinema, Modernity, and Drift"

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Bodies Too Much	1	(26)
Ivone Margulies
Bazinian Contingencies
Death Every Afternoon	27	(5)
Andre Bazin
Mark A. Cohen
The Screen of Fantasy (Bazin and Animals)	32	(10)
Serge Daney
Mark A. Cohen
History of Image, Image of History: Subject and Ontology in Bazin	42	(38)
Philip Rosen
The Object of Theory	80	(13)
Mary Ann Doane
Cultural Indices
No Longer Absolute: Portraiture in American Avant-Garde and Documentary Films of the Sixties	93	(26)
Paul Arthur
In Search of the Real City: Cinematic Representations of Beijing and the Politics of Vision	119	(25)
Xiaobing Tang
Private Reality: Hara Kazuo's Films	144	(20)
Abe Mark Nornes
Mike Leigh's Modernist Realism	164	(21)
Richard Porton
Why Is This Absurd Picture Here? Ethnology/Heterology/Bunuel	185	(32)
James F. Lastra
Retracings
Exemplary Bodies: Reenactment in Love in the City, Sons, and Close Up	217	(28)
Ivone Margulies
Pasolini on Terra Sancta: Towards a Theology of Film	245	(25)
Noa Steimatsky
Ecstatic Ethnography: Maya Deren and the Filming of Possession Rituals	270	(24)
Catherine Russell
Filmic Tableau Vivant: Vermeer, Intermediality, and the Real	294	(21)
Brigitte Peucker
Dreyer's Textual Realism	315	(10)
James Schamus
Selected Bibliography	325	(8)
Contributors	333	(4)
Index	337