Cinematic Vitalism / Inga Pollmann.
This book draws new connections between twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice and vitalist conceptions of life from biology and philosophy. Inga Pollmann shows how the links between the two created a modernist, experimental, and cinematic strand of vitalism in and around the m...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Film theory in media history.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (295 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: 'The sanguine, pulsating, enterprising modern life': Cinema and Vitalism
- 1. Vitalism and Abstraction: Rhythm and Non-Organic Life from Hans Richter to Sergei Eisenstein
- 2. New Worlds: Uexküll's Umwelt Theory at the Movies
- 3. The Interweaving of World and Self: Transformations of Mood in Expressionist and Kammerspiel Film
- 4. Open Bodies, Open Stories: Evolution, Narration, and Spectatorship in Post-war Film Theory
- Conclusion: Vital Media
- Bibliography
- Index of Films
- Index of Names
- Index of Subjects