Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

Organic Cinema

Film, Architecture, and the Work of Béla Tarr

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Presents conceptual parallels between modern cinema and modern architecture. Approaches director Béla Tarr through the particularities of Hungarian culture. Develops the theoretical discourse on Slow Cinema or "Contemplative Cinema" emergent in contemporary philosophy of film.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• ISBN-13: 9781785335662
• ISBN-10: 1785335669
• Artikelnr.: 47367057

Autorenporträt

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein received his doctorate from Oxford University and his habilitation degree from the EHESS in Paris. He has authored and edited numerous volumes in philosophy, cultural studies, film, and other fields. He is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Introduction
Chapter 1. Cinema, Architecture, Literature
Chapter 2. Central Europe
Chapter 3. What is "Organic?"
Chapter 4. The Melancholy of Evolution
Chapter 5. Where is the Center?
Chapter 6. Modernism and Postmodernism
Chapter 7. Organic Harmonies
Chapter 8. Back to Humanism?
Chapter 9. Politics of Harmony
Chapter 10. The Spiritual
Chapter 11. Organic Places
Chapter 12. The Organic Camera Shot
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index