Pantenburg Farocki/Godard

Film as Theory
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-90-485-2755-7
Verlag: Amsterdam University Press
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 348 Seiten

Reihe: Film Culture in Transition

There is a tension between the requirements of theoretical abstraction and the capacities of the film medium, where everything that we see on screen is concrete: A train arriving at a station, a tree, bodies, faces. Since the complex theories of montage in Soviet cinema, however, there have continuously been attempts to express theoretical issues by combining shots, thus creating a visual form of thinking.

This book brings together two major filmmakers-French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard and German avant-gardist Harun Farocki to explore the fundamental tension between theoretical abstraction and the capacities of film itself, a medium where everything seen onscreen is necessarily concrete. Volker Pantenburg shows how these two filmmakers explored the potential of combined shots and montage to create "film as theory."

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pantenburg, Volker

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Installations-, Aktions-, Computer- und Videokunst

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the English Edition Introduction: Two Image Researchers I. Le Film qui pense II. The Camera as Brush - Film as Painting III. Deviation as Norm - Notes on the Essay Film IV. Cut - Interlude in the Editing Room V. Taking Pictures - Photography and Film VI. Two or Three Ways of Speaking with the Hands Conclusion Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Illustration Credits Index

Über Autor(innen)

Pantenburg, Volker
Volker Pantenburg is assistant professor for visual media with emphasis on research on moving images at the Faculty of Media of the Bauhaus University Weimar.

Pantenburg Volker:
Volker Pantenburg is assistant professor for visual media with emphasis on research on moving images at the Faculty of Media of the Bauhaus University Weimar.