Cinematic Vitalism : Film Theory and the Question of Life / Inga Pollmann.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Film theory in media history | Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2018]Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2020Copyright date: ©[2018]Description: 1 online resource (256 pages): illustrationsContent type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789048534005
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Online resources: Summary: 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 movie theatre. Articulated by film theorists, filmmakers, biologists and philosophers, this cinematic vitalism maps out connections among human beings, milieus, and technologies that continue to structure our understanding of film.
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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 movie theatre. Articulated by film theorists, filmmakers, biologists and philosophers, this cinematic vitalism maps out connections among human beings, milieus, and technologies that continue to structure our understanding of film.

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