Modernist montage : the obscurity of vision in cinema and literature
Tracing the history of modernism in cinema, this study provides readings of a range of classic films made between 1925 and 1980 by such filmmakers as Carl Dreyer, Ingmar Bergman and Robert Bresson. It argues that the act of vision and visual experience are problematized in literary modernism
Criticism, interpretation, etc
x, 250 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780231071826, 9780231071833, 0231071825, 0231071833
20721915
The instant of love: image and title in surrealist cinema
Revolutionary time: image and title in Soviet cinema
Moments of revelation: Dreyer's anachronistic modernity
Cinematography vs the cinema: Bresson's figures
The recit and the figure: Blanchot's Au moment voulu
Saying "nothing": persona as an allegory of psychoanalysis
The sentiment of doing nothing: Stein's autobiographies
Out via nothing: Olson's genealogy of the proper poem
Whoever sees God dies: cinematic epiphanies
Theology vs psychoanalysis: Landow's wit