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Record Nr.

UNINA9910320755403321

Autore

Pollmann Inga

Titolo

Cinematic Vitalism / Inga Pollmann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, : Amsterdam University Press, 2017

Amsterdam : , : Amsterdam University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

1-003-69259-1

1-04-078397-X

90-485-3400-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (295 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Film theory in media history

Disciplina

791

Soggetti

Vitalismus

Filmtheorie

Film

Motion pictures - Philosophy

Vitalism in motion pictures

PERFORMING ARTS / General

PERFORMING ARTS / Reference

Vitalism - In motion pictures

Frankreich

Deutschland

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: 'The sanguine, pulsating, enterprising modern life': Cinema and Vitalism -- 1. Vitalism and Abstraction: Rhythm and Non-Organic Life from Hans Richter to Sergei Eisenstein -- 2. New Worlds: Uexküll's Umwelt Theory at the Movies -- 3. The Interweaving of World and Self: Transformations of Mood in Expressionist and Kammerspiel Film -- 4. Open Bodies, Open Stories: Evolution, Narration, and Spectatorship in Post-war Film Theory -- Conclusion: Vital Media -- Bibliography -- Index of Films -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects



Sommario/riassunto

This book draws new connections between twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice and vitalist conceptions of life from biology and philosophy. Inga Pollmann shows how the links between the two created a modernist, experimental, and cinematic strand of vitalism in and around the movie theatre. Articulated by film theorists, filmmakers, biologists and philosophers, this cinematic vitalism maps out connections among human beings, milieus, and technologies that continue to structure our understanding of film.