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Jean Epstein : : Critical Essays and New Translations / / ed. by Jason N. Paul, Sarah Keller.

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Although early film buffs may be familiar with Jean Epstein's films, including an adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, not many Anglophones are acquainted with his poetic and provocative prose. Gathered in this wide-ranging collection are new translations into En...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter AUP eBook Package Backfile 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Abel, Richard,
Brenez, Nicole,
Bullot, Érik,
Cortade, Ludovic,
Guido, Laurent,
Gunning, Tom,
Keller, Sarah,
Kirtland, Katie,
Liebman, Stuart,
Lundemo, Trond,
Moore, Rachel,
Schneider, James,
Wall-Romana, Christophe,
Wild, Jennifer,
HerausgeberIn:
Keller, Sarah,
Paul, Jason N.,
Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
Series:Film Theory in Media History
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Physical Description:1 online resource (440 p.) :; 25 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Preface
  • Introduction. Jean Epstein and the Revolt of Cinema
  • Essays
  • Epstein's Photogénie as Corporeal Vision: Inner Sensation, Queer Embodiment, and Ethics
  • Novelty and Poiesis in the Early Writings of Jean Epstein
  • The Cinema of the Kaleidoscope
  • Distance is [Im]material: Epstein Versus Etna
  • "The Supremacy of the Mathematical Poem": Jean Epstein's Conceptions of Rhythm
  • The "Microscope of Time": Slow Motion in Jean Epstein's Writings
  • A Different Nature
  • Cinema Seen from the Seas: Epstein and the Oceanic
  • A Temporal Perspective: Jean Epstein's Writings on Technology and Subjectivity
  • Ultra-Modern: Jean Epstein, or Cinema "Serving the Forces of Transgression and Revolt"
  • Thoughts on Photogénie Plastique
  • Translations
  • Introduction: Epstein's Writings
  • La Poésie d'aujourd'hui, un nouvel état d'intelligence (1921)
  • Bonjour Cinéma (1921)
  • La Lyrosophie (1922)
  • Le Cinématographe vu de l'Etna (1926)
  • L'intelligence d'une machine (1946)
  • Le Cinéma du diable (1947)
  • Later Works
  • Late Articles
  • Afterword: Reclaiming Jean Epstein
  • Filmography
  • Select Bibliography
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Films and Major Writings by Jean Epstein
  • Index of Films

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