After Authority : : Global Art Cinema and Political Transition / / Kalling Heck.
After Authority explores the tendency in art cinema to respond to political transition by turning to ambiguity, a system that ideally stems the reemergence of authoritarian logics in art and elsewhere. By comparing films from Italy, Hungary, South Korea, and the United States, this book contends tha...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020] ©2020 |
Year of Publication: | 2020 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 28 b-w images |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction. Four Angels -- 1. Authority Year Zero: On Germany Year Zero -- 2. The Image That Waits: On Sátántangó -- 3. The End of Authority, the End of Democracy: On Woman on the Beach -- 4. Force, Hope, and Death: On Medium Cool -- Coda: Political Modernism and the Possibility for Action -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
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Summary: | After Authority explores the tendency in art cinema to respond to political transition by turning to ambiguity, a system that ideally stems the reemergence of authoritarian logics in art and elsewhere. By comparing films from Italy, Hungary, South Korea, and the United States, this book contends that the aesthetic tradition of ambiguity in art cinema can be traced to post-authoritarian conditions and that it is in the context of a transition away from authoritarianism where art cinema aesthetics become legible. Art cinema, then, can be seen as a mode of cinematic practice that is at its core political, as its constitutive ambiguity finds its roots in the rejection of centralized and hierarchical configurations of authority. Ultimately, After Authority proposes a history of art cinema predicated on the potentials, possibilities, and politics of ambiguity. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781978807020 9783110738230 9783110704655 9783110704785 9783110704716 9783110704518 9783110690330 |
DOI: | 10.36019/9781978807020?locatt=mode:legacy |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Kalling Heck. |