PART I: THE WONDER OF CINEMA: SCORSESE -- 1. Living in Manhattan in the 19th Century -- 2. Memory and Astonishment in "Shutter Island" -- 3. Style and Signature in Film -- 4. Bazin, Bresson and Scorsese: Performatives in Film -- Intermezzo -- 5. Jim Jarmusch's Philosophy of Composition -- PART II: EXPERIMENTING TIME AND SPACE: VAN SANT AND LYNCH -- 6. Minimalist Aesthetics in "Gerry" -- 7. Space and Long Takes in "Paranoid Park" -- 8. Lives on film: Gus Van Sant's "Milk" -- 9. David Lynch: Painting in Film -- Filmography
Summary
"Lombardo expands upon the intuitions of Baudelaire, proposing a new understanding of cinephilia as the interplay of the memory and the imagination of both filmmakers and spectators. Works by Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch and Van Sant are presented as imaginative uses of the history of cinema, as well as the histories of painting, music, literature and photography. Quotations, allusions, and more complex stylistic devices combine to become conscious or unconscious re-elaborations of works from the past and the present. The question of spectators' participation is discussed at length, alongside detailed analysis that aims to disentangle the various elements within specific film sequences"-- Provided by publisher
