Mediamorphosis : Kafka and the moving image / / edited by Shai Biderman and Ido Lewit

• Pubblicazione: London, [England] ; ; New York : , : Wallflower Press, , 2016; ©2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (373 p.)
• Disciplina: 833.912
• Soggetto topico: Motion pictures and literature
• Classificazione: GM 4004
• Persona (resp. second.): BidermanShai; LewitIdo
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INTRODUCTION. IDO LEWIT AND SHAI BIDERMAN -- KAFKA, RUMOUR, EARLY CINEMA: ARCHAIC MOVING PICTURES -- SEBALD GOES TO THE MOVIES: READING KAFKA AS CINEMATOGRAPHY -- THE GHOST IS CLEAR: THE POV OF THE DAYDREAMER -- MOVING PICTURES – VISUAL PLEASURES: KAFKA’S CINEMATIC WRITING -- TO MOVE AS THE IMAGE MOVES: THE RULE OF RHYTHMIC PRESENCE AND ABSENCE IN KAFKA’S THE MAN WHO DISAPPEARED -- NOISES OFF: CINEMATIC SOUND IN KAFKA’S ‘THE BURROW’ -- GESTURE, WARDROBE, BACKDROP AND PROP IN FRANZ KAFKA’S THE MAN WHO DISAPPEARED AND PETER WEIR’S THE TRUMAN SHOW -- THE POSSIBILITY OF THE CINEMATIC IN ‘THE METAMORPHOSIS’ AND ‘THE BURROW’ -- ‘THE ESSENTIAL IS SUFFICIENT’: THE KAFKA ADAPTATIONS OF ORSON WELLES, STRAUB-HUILLET AND MICHAEL HANEKE -- K, THE TRAMP AND THE CINEMATIC VISION: THE KAFKAESQUE CHAPLIN -- ‘THE MEDIUM IS THE MESSAGE’: CRONENBERG ‘OUTKAFKAS’ KAFKA -- THE ABSURDITY OF HUMAN EXISTENCE: ‘THE METAMORPHOSIS’ AND THE FLY -- ‘THIS IS NOT NOTHING’: VIEWING THE COEN BROTHERS THROUGH THE LENS OF KAFKA -- THE FACE: K. AND KEATON -- TRANSLATING KAFKA INTO ITALIAN: KAFKAESQUE THEMES IN ELIO PETRI’S FILMS -- MAGIC, MYSTERY AND MIRACLE: RE-SPIRALLING MARKER AND KAFKA -- TRANSCRIBING KAFKA INTO FILM: A TORTUOUS LOVE-STORY -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The idea of a visual manifestation of the work of Franz Kafka was denied by many—first and foremost by Kafka himself, who famously urged his publisher to avoid an image of an insect on the cover of Metamorphosis. Be that as it may, it is unlikely that such a central progenitor of twentieth-century art and thought as Kafka can be fully understood without reference to the revolutionary artistic medium of his century: cinema.Mediamorphosis compiles articles by some of today's leading forces in the scholarship of Kafka as well as film studies to provide a thorough investigation of the reciprocal relations between Kafka's work and the cinematic medium. The volume approaches the theoretical integration of Kafka and cinema via such issues as the cinematic qualities in Kafka's prose and the possibility of a visual manifestation of the Kafkaesque. Alongside these debates, the book investigates the capacity of cinema to incorporate and express the unique qualities of a Kafkaesque world through an analysis of cinematic adaptations of Kafka's prose, such as Michael Haneke's The Castle (1997) and Straub-Huillet's Class Relations (1984), as well as films that carry a more subtle relation to Kafka's oeuvre, such as the cinematic works of David Cronenberg, the films of the Coen brothers, Chris Marker's "film-essay," Charlie Chaplin's tramp, and others.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mediamorphosis
• ISBN: 0-231-85089-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808552103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II