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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pollmann, Inga (Author)
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, [2017]
Series:	Film theory in media history.
Subjects:	Vitalism > In motion pictures. Motion pictures > Philosophy. PERFORMING ARTS / General. PERFORMING ARTS / Reference. Motion pictures > Philosophy Vitalism in motion pictures Vitalismus Filmtheorie Film Frankreich Deutschland
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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

Cinematic Vitalism Inga Pollmann.

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