After Authority : : Global Art Cinema and Political Transition / / Kalling Heck.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Art and Architecture eBook-Package 2020
• VerfasserIn: Heck, Kalling,
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (192 p.) :; 28 b-w images

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.

Table of Contents

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