The Funambulist pamphlets. / 11, : Cinema / / edited by Leopold Lambert.

• TeilnehmendeR: Lambert, Leopold, 1984-
• Place / Publishing House: Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2020; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2015; 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Funambulist pamphlets ; volume 11
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (108 pages) :; illustrations; PDF, digital file(s).
• Notes: "Consider the mud of the Red Desert (Antonioni), the volcanic slopes of The Bad Sleep Well (Kurosawa) and the soil of Pina Bausch's Rite of Spring magnified in Pina (Wenders). What these material manifestations have in common is that they are all in relation with bodies, themselves assemblages of moving matter. Similarly, consider Spike Lee's dolly shot, Orson Welles's labyrinth, Bela Tarr's entropy, and Peter Watkin's democratic improvistaions: they all manifest the power of immanence and its inexorability."--Back cover.; "February 2015."

The Funambulist Pamphlets is a series of small books archiving articles published on The Funambulist, collected according to specific themes. These volumes propose a different articulation of texts than the usual chronological one. The first twelve volumes are respectively dedicated to Spinoza, Fouc...

Table of Contents

• Introduction: the cinema papers
• La Haine: Banlieue and police
• Paris is burning: gender, sexuality, and race's performativity
• Coriolanus: state of exception
• World War Z: the zombie is a human you have the right to kill
• The act of killing: what constitutes the act of killing?
• Hunger: the body at war
• The diary of an unknown soldier & the forgotten faces: two films by Peter Watkins
• La Commune Paris (Paris, 1871): democratic cinematographic construction
• Sleep dealer: separating the body and its labor production
• Even the rain: what kind of leftist do we want to be?
• Dogtooth: emancipation from a Sadian patriarchal world
• The exterminating angel: we must become claustrophobic architects
• Un chien andalou: dream as true horror
• The trial: the kafkaian immanent labyrinth as postmortem dream
• Enter the void: post-mortem wandering
• Holy motors: phenomenological introspection
• The Turin horse: enropy of mind and matter
• Red desert: corrupted materials
• Gravity: an ode to gravity
• Pina: the weight of the body dancing
• Wings of desire: der erzähler (the storyteller)
• Akira Kurosawa: applied spinozism
• Spike Lee: the dolly shot as inexorability of immanence.