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Farocki/Godard: Film as Theor

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There is a tension between the requirements of theoretical abstraction and the capacities of the film medium, where everything that we see on screen is concrete: A train arriving at a station, a tree, bodies, faces. Since the complex theories of montage in Soviet cinema, however, there have continuously been attempts to express theoretical issues by combining shots, thus creating a visual form of thinking. This book brings together two major filmmakers-French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard and German avant-gardist Harun Farocki to explore the fundamental tension between theoretical abstraction and the capacities of film itself, a medium where everything seen onscreen is necessarily concrete. Volker Pantenburg shows how these two filmmakers explored the potential of combined shots and montage to create "film as theory."

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791.43 PAN f

Publisher

: ., 2015

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Language

English

ISBN/ISSN

9789048527557

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791.43

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text

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computer

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online resource

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ART

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Volker Pantenburg

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umi

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https://openresearchlibrary.org/content/958e0652-567e-4bd6-8664-121827ca5eaf

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