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Author Ravetto-Biagioli, Kriss, author.

Title Mythopoetic cinema : on the ruins of European identity / Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli
Published New York : Columbia University Press, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xi, 314 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction -- Floating on the borders of Europe : Aleksandr Sokurov's Russian ark -- O Megalexandros : falling in and out of dreams -- In Balkan : Marina Abramović and the politics of the suffering body -- Notre musique : on the ruins of the divine -- Epilogue : the politics of confrontation
Summary "In Mythopoetic Cinema, Kriss Ravetto-Biagoli explores how contemporary European filmmakers treat mythopoetics as a critical practice that questions the constant need to provide new identities in a new Europe, and with it a new European cinema after the fall of the Soviet Union. Examining the work of Alexander Sokurov, Theodoros Angelopoulos, Marina Abramović, and Jean-Luc Godard, she analyzes the ways in which these filmmakers engage and evaluate the recent reconceptualization of Europe's borders, mythic figures, and identity paradoxes, as well as how their work questions the ability of the moving image to challenge conventional ways of understanding history."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-304) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- Europe -- History and criticism
ART -- Art & Politics.
Motion pictures
Motion pictures -- Political aspects
SUBJECT Europe -- In motion pictures
Subject Europe
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780231544108
0231544103