Fate in Film : : A Deterministic Approach to Cinema / / Thomas M. Puhr.
The course of events is predetermined and cannot be changed. Forces beyond our control—or even our comprehension—shape our fates. Such is the deterministic worldview embedded in a wide swath of contemporary cinema, from arthouse experiments to popular genre films, through both thematic concerns and...
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Puhr, Thomas M., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Fate in Film : A Deterministic Approach to Cinema / Thomas M. Puhr. New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource : 25 film stills text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Short Cuts Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION “You’ve Always Been the Caretaker” -- PART I MYSTERIOUS APPEARANCES The Illusion of Agency in Identity Formation -- 1 JONATHAN GLAZER’S IDENTITY TRILOGY -- 2 THE GREEK INFLUENCE -- PART II FAMILY SWALLOWS EVERYTHING You Are What Preceded You -- 3 ON DISPLAY -- 4 A NEW FAMILY EMERGES -- PART III FALSE FREEDOM IN SOCIETY Breaking the Cycle Only Reinforces It -- 5 FATE REMADE -- 6 GOODBYE TO SYMBOLS -- CONCLUSION Beyond the Screen -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- SHORT CUTS restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star The course of events is predetermined and cannot be changed. Forces beyond our control—or even our comprehension—shape our fates. Such is the deterministic worldview embedded in a wide swath of contemporary cinema, from arthouse experiments to popular genre films, through both thematic concerns and narrative structures. These films, especially the recent spate of “elevated” science fiction and horror, tap into this deep-seated anxiety by focusing on characters who ultimately fail to transcend the patterns and structures that define them.Thomas M. Puhr identifies and analyzes the ways that cinema has dealt with the tension between fate and free will, from Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining to Christopher Nolan’s Tenet. He examines films that express deterministic ideas, including circular narratives of stasis or confinement and fatalistic portraits of external forces dictating characters’ lives. Puhr considers determinism at the levels of the individual, the family, and society, reading films in which characters are trapped by past or alternate selves, the burdens of family histories, or oppressive social structures. He explores how films such as Joel and Ethan Coen’s Inside Llewyn Davis, Ari Aster’s Hereditary, Jordan Peele’s Us, and Lucrecia Martel’s Zama confront the limits of human agency. Puhr relates deterministic themes to the nature of moviegoing: In denying characters any ability to choose alternative paths, these films mirror how viewers themselves can only sit and watch.Recasting the works of some of today’s most compelling directors, Fate in Film is an innovative critical account of an unrecognized yet crucial aspect of contemporary cinema. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) Fate and fatalism in motion pictures. Free will and determinism In motion pictures. Motion pictures History. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110749663 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts 2022 9783110992809 ZDB-23-DPK Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Arts, Architecture and Design 2022 English 9783110992816 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English 9783110993899 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 9783110994810 ZDB-23-DGG print 9780231203913 https://doi.org/10.7312/puhr20391 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780231555272 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780231555272/original |
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