Comparative Cinema : How American University Students View Foreign Films

by Allert, Beate; Stern, Guy

• ISBN13: 9780773451667
• ISBN10: 0773451668
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-05-30
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr

Summary

This anthology of primarily doctoral student essays on European Film 1925-1965 demonstrates how analyzing film provides new insights into visual culture, world literature, and multiculturalism.

Author Biography

Dr. Beate Allert is an Associate Professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Purdue University.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 1
Introduction	p. 1
Film based on Signs, Images, and Sounds: East meets West	p. 19
Hieroglyph, Ideogram, and Eisenstein	p. 21
From Peking Opera to Eisenstein: Montage and Its Classical-Modernist Charm	p. 33
Sound, Light and Time in Ingmar Bergman's Sawdust and Tinsel and Wild Strawberries	p. 47
Temporality and Memory	p. 73
'Rats! Rats! Rats everywhere. The city is alive again': Postwar Berlin in Wolfgang Staudte's Die Morder sind unter uns	p. 75
Crystalline Regime: Approaching Resnais' Last Year at Marienbad with Deleuze on Time	p. 95
History, Time, and the Postmodern Condition in Last Year in Marienbad	p. 113
Equivocal Temporality in Chris Marker's La Jetee	p. 123
Orpheus Myth in Film	p. 135
Marcel Camus' Black Orpheus / Orfeu negro: Popular Culture and Identity (Re-) Creation	p. 137
Orpheus and the Flaneuse: Black Orpheus / Orfeu negro on Mobility and Gendered Spectatorship	p. 151
Backward Glances: Black Orpheus / Orfeu negro and Problems of Political Interpretation	p. 167
Death and love in Black Orpheus / Orfeu negro	p. 183
Gender and Identity	p. 195
Dismantling the Phallus: Creative Crisis and the Role of Women in Fellini's 8 1/2	p. 197
ä Viridiana: Realism and Surrealism	p. 215
It ä Like a Knife: Ekphrastic Revindication for Bunuel's Un Chien Andalou in ä de Sangre by Federico Garcia Lorca	p. 227
Gendered Technology and Constructing Identity in Fritz Lang's Metropolis	p. 243
Visions and Dreams: Personal, Public, and Political	p. 267
Public Texts and Public Traumas: W. Staudte's The Murderers are Among Us and Frances Truffaut's 400 Blows	p. 269
Levinas Concept of "Useless Suffering" in Le Sang d'un Poete or how Cocteau avoids being caught up in his film	p. 281
Dreaming the Impossible Dream: Don Quijote in Bergman's The Seventh Seal	p. 293
Controlling Uncontrollable Visions: Isak's Dreams and Salvation in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries	p. 309
Bibliography	p. 325
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