World cinema and the ethics of realism

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World cinema and the ethics of realism

Lúcia Nagib

Continuum, c2011

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-278) and index

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This is a sweeping study of world cinema, illustrating how its creative peaks stem from the urge to reveal otherwise hidden political and social dimensions of reality. "World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism" is a highly original study. It breaks away from the binary divisions which underpin most of film theory, and challenges traditional views of cinematic realism, drawing instead on the filmmaker's commitment to truth and to film's material bond with the real. Nagib conducts comparative case studies drawn from a wide range of realist trends, including the Japanese New Wave, the nouvelle vague, the Cinema Novo, the New German Cinema, the Inuit Indigenous Cinema, the Taiwan New Cinema and the New Brazilian Cinema. She reveals that these creative peaks are animated by the desire to reveal concealed or unknown political, social, psychological or mystical dimensions of reality - as observed in the various cycles of new waves and new cinemas across film history and geography. "World Cinema and the Ethics of Realism" is groundbreaking scholarship that surveys and defines World Cinema not as the opposite of Hollywood, but in positive terms; and draws upon the work of Badiou and Ranciere to take film theory in a bold new direction.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction Part I - Physical Cinema Chapter 1. The End of the Other Physical Realism The Missing Other Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner Yaaba God and the Devil in the Land of the Sun (Black God, White Devil) The 400 Blows Chapter 2. The Immaterial Difference: Werner Herzog Revisited The Excessive Body Literal Difference Physical Difference Representational Difference Part II - The Reality of the Medium Chapter 3. Conceptual Realism in Land in Trance and I Am Cuba Allegorical Real Reality as Process: Trance in Land in Trance Trance, Sexuality and the Christian Myth in I Am Cuba Mimesis of the Principle Concluding Remarks Chapter 4. The Work of Art in Progress: An Analysis of Delicate Crime Part III - The Ethics of Desire Chapter 5. The Realm of the Senses, the Ethical Imperative and the Politics of Pleasure Originality, Beauty and the Porn Genre The Eroticized Nation Sex in Red and White: Double Suicide Anti-Realism and Artistic Real The Participative Voyeur and the Eroticized Apparatus Part IV - The Production of Reality Chapter 6. Hara and Kobayashi's 'Private Documentaries' Historical Time Phenomenological Time Active Subjects Chapter 7. The Self-Performing Auteur: Ethics in Joao Cesar Monteiro Ethics of the Impossible Real God's Autobiography The History Man Bibliography Notes Index

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