| Description |
xi, 227 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Princeton paperbacks |
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Princeton paperbacks.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Bodies and Boundaries -- Ch. 1. Movement, Fragmentation, and the Uncanny. Unnatural Conjunctions: The Heterogeneous Text. "Its Strange Mixture of the Natural and the Artificial": The Presence of Kleist. "Bits of Bodies": The Fragmented Text. Man and the Cinema Machine: Magician, Psychoanalyst, Scientist: The Case of Dr. Caligari. Fritz Lang, the Apparatus, and the Fissured Text. Magician and Surgeon. "Knife Phobia" "Doing It with Scissors": Dismemberment in Hitchcock -- Ch. 2. Monstrous Births: The Hybrid Text. Miscegenation and the Sister Arts: Griffith's Broken Blossoms. Hitchcock's "Half-Caste" Murnau. Cinematic Vampirism. Painting and Repression. Herzog's Unassimilable Bodies. Witchcraft, Vision, and Incest: Dreyer's Day of Wrath. The Phantom of the Cinema: Body and Voice -- Ch. 3. Incorporation: Images and the Real. Trompe l'Oeil Effects. Cinema and the Real. Body Language: Kleist's and Rohmer's Marquise. Hitchcock as Pygmalion |
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Wings of Desire: Reality, Text, Embodiment. Kleist, Tableau Vivant, and the Pornographic. Fassbinder's Cinema of Mixed Modes: Tableau Vivant and the Real. Incorporation in Greenaway. Painful Images -- Afterword: Ut pictura poesis |
| Summary |
Film, a latecomer to the realm of artistic media, alludes to, absorbs, and undermines the discourses of the other arts--literature and painting especially--in order to carve out a position for itself among them. Exposing the anxiety in film's relation to its rival arts, Brigitte Peucker analyzes central issues involved in generic boundary crossing as they pertain to film and situates them in a theoretical framework. The figure of the human body takes center stage in Peucker's innovative study, for it is through this figure that the conjunction of literary and painterly discourses persistently articulates itself. It is through the human body, too, that film's consciousness of itself as a hybrid text and as a "machine for simulation" makes itself deeply felt |
| Analysis |
Cinema Films (Motion pictures) Aesthetics |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-213) and index |
| Subject |
Motion pictures and the arts.
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Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
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| LC no. |
94018110 |
| ISBN |
0691002819 (pa : acid-free paper) |
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0691040982 (cl : acid-free paper) |
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