World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism

Name: World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism
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By Lúcia Nagib

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World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism is a highly original study. Traditional views of cinematic realism usually draw on the so-called classical cinema and its allegiance to narrative mimesis, but Nagib challenges this, drawing instead on the filmmaker's commitment to truth and to the film medium's material bond with the real.
Starting from the premise that world cinema's creative peaks are governed by an ethics of realism, Nagib conducts comparative case studies picked from world new waves, such as the Japanese New Wave, the French nouvelle vague, the Cinema Novo, the New German Cinema, the Russo-Cuban Revolutionary Cinema, the Portuguese self-performing auteur and the Inuit Indigenous Cinema. Drawing upon Badiou and Rancière, World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism revisits and reformulates several fundamental concepts in film studies, such as illusionism, identification, apparatus, alienation effects, presentation and representation. Its groundbreaking scholarship takes film theory in a bold new direction.

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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 308
Release Date:: 2011-01-20
Publication Date:: 2011-01-20
Publisher:: Continnuum-3PL
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1441165835
ISBN13:: 9781441165831
Weight:: 449 g
Height:: 152 cm
Width:: 229 cm
Thickness:: 17 cm

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