Peter Greenaway's Postmodern / Poststructuralist Cinema

by Willoquet-Maricondi, Paula; Alemany-Galway, Mary; Reinert, Cristina Degli-Esposti; Stefano, John Di; Elliott, Bridget; Purdy, Anthony; Greenaway, Peter; Hotchkiss, Lia M.; Ostwald, Michael; Pascoe, David; Peeters, Heidi; Petrolle, Jean; Stetco, Dayana; Te

• ISBN13: 9780810862012
• ISBN10: 0810862018
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-07-17
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Summary

"Since the 1960s, British multi-media artist Peter Greenaway has shocked and intrigued audiences with his avant-garde approach to filmmaking and other artistic ventures. From early experimental films to provocative features, Greenaway has deployed strategies associated with structuralist cinema only to challenge or critique the very limits of that cinema, and of film in general." "In this collection of essays, scholars from a variety of disciplines explore various postmodern and poststructuralist aspects of Greenaway's films, starting with his early shorts and delving into his feature-length works, inclnding The Draughtman's Contract, The Belly of an Architect, A Zed and Two Noughts, The Cook, the Thief; His Wile and Her Lover, The Baby of Macon, and The Pillow Book. Other artistic productions, including his paintings and installutions, are also discussed. These essays examine the filmmaker's position within British and avunt-garde cinema and his interest in constructing and deconstructing representational systems."--BOOK JACKET.

Table of Contents

A Postmodern/Poststructuratist Cinema
Postmodern Mega-Cinema
From British Cinema to Mega-Cinema	p. 3
Peter Greenaway and the Failure of Cinema	p. 37
Neo-Baroque Imaging in Peter Greenaway's Cinema	p. 51
Tabula for a Catastrophe: Peter Greenaway's The Falls and Foucault's Heterotopia	p. 79
Postmodern Features
Postmodernism and the French New Novel: The Influence of Last Year and Marienbad on The Draughtsman's Contract	p. 115
Rising from the Ruins: Interpreting the Missing Formal Device within The Belly of an Architect	p. 137
Z is for Zebra, Zoo, Zed, and Zygote, or Is It Possible to Live with Ambivalence?	p. 159
Prospero's Books, Postmodernism, and the Reenchantment of the World	p. 177
The Crisis of Commentary: Tilting at Windmills in Peter Greenaway's The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover	p. 203
Theater, Ritual, and Materiality in Peter Greenaway's The Baby of Macon	p. 223
Skin Deep: Fins-de-Siecle and New Beginnings in Peter Greenaway's The Pillow Book	p. 255
"Too Many Proofs Spoil the Truth"
Body and Text & Eight and a Half Women: A Laconic Black Comedy	p. 285
Two Interviews with Peter Greenaway	p. 301
"There Are Only Historians"
The Tulse Luper Suitcases: Peter Greenaway's Left Luggage	p. 323
Greenaway, the Netherlands, and the Conspiracies of History	p. 339
Works by Peter Greenaway	p. 359
Bibliography	p. 373
Index	p. 399
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