Title Making worlds : affect and collectivity in contemporary European cinema / Claudia Breger

Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2020]

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Description 1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations Contents Affects in Configuration : Controversy and Conviviality in Fatih Akın's The Edge of Heaven and Asghar Farhadi's A Separation -- Critical Intensity : Jean-Luc Godard's and Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Defamiliarized Worldmaking Practices -- Genre Assemblages : Affective Incisions in Akın's The Cut and Ari Kaurismäki's Refugee Trilogy -- Tenderly Cruel Realisms: Objectfull Assembly and the Horizon of a Shared World -- Epilogue : Reconfiguring Resistance Summary The twenty-first century has witnessed a resurgence of economic inequality, racial exclusion, and political hatred, causing questions of collective identity and belonging to assume urgency. In this book, the author argues that contemporary European cinema provides ways of thinking about and feeling collectivity that can challenge these political trends. The author offers nuanced readings of major contemporary films such as Michael Haneke's The White Ribbon, Alejandro González Iñárritu's Biutiful, Fatih Akın's The Edge of Heaven, Asghar Farhadi's A Separation, and Aki Kaurismäki's refugee trilogy, as well as works by Jean-Luc Godard and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Through a model of cinematic worldmaking, the author examines the ways in which these works produce unexpected and destabilizing affects that invite viewers to imagine new connections among individuals or groups. These films and their depictions of refugees, immigrants, and communities do not simply counter dominant political imaginaries of hate and fear with calls for empathy or solidarity. Instead, they produce layered sensibilities that offer the potential for greater openness to others' present, past, and future claims. Drawing on the work of Latour, Deleuze, and Rancière, the author engages questions of genre and realism along with the legacies of cinematic modernism. Offering a rich account of contemporary film, this book theorizes the cinematic creation of imaginative spaces in order to find new ways of responding to political hatred Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed March 02, 2020) Subject Motion pictures -- Social aspects -- Europe -- History -- 21st century Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Europe -- History -- 21st century LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- General. PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism. Motion pictures -- Political aspects Motion pictures -- Social aspects Europe Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780231550697 0231550693

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