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The utopia of film : cinema and its futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik / Christopher Pavsek.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Film and culturePublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, 2013Description: 1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780231530811 (ebook)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Utopia of film : cinema and its futures in Godard, Kluge, and Tahimik.DDC classification:
  • 791.4301 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1995 .P353 2013
Online resources:
Contents:
Introduction: the idea of cinema -- What has come to pass for cinema: from early to late Godard -- Kidlat Tahimik's "third world projector" -- The actuality of cinema: Alexander Kluge -- Epilogue.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The German filmmaker Alexander Kluge has long promoted cinema's relationship with the goals of human emancipation. Jean-Luc Godard and Filipino director Kidlat Tahimik also believe in cinema's ability to bring about what Theodor W. Adorno once called a "redeemed world." Situating the films of Godard, Tahimik, and Kluge within debates over social revolution, utopian ideals, and the unrealized potential of utopian thought and action, Christopher Pavsek showcases the strengths, weaknesses, and undeniable impact of their utopian visions on film's political evolution. He discusses Godard's Alphaville (1965) against Germany Year 90 Nine-Zero (1991) and JLG/JLG: Self-portrait in December (1994), and he conducts the first scholarly reading of Film Socialisme (2010). He considers Tahimik's virtually unknown masterpiece, I Am Furious Yellow (1981-1991), along with Perfumed Nightmare (1977) and Turumba (1983); and he constructs a dialogue between Kluge's Brutality in Stone (1961) and Yesterday Girl (1965) and his later The Assault of the Present on the Rest of Time (1985) and Fruits of Trust (2009).

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-274) and index.

Introduction: the idea of cinema -- What has come to pass for cinema: from early to late Godard -- Kidlat Tahimik's "third world projector" -- The actuality of cinema: Alexander Kluge -- Epilogue.

Description based on print version record.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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