Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema

Author:   Benedict Morrison (Lecturer in Literature, Film, and Television, Lecturer in Literature, Film, and Television, The University of Exeter)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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Pages:   224
Publication Date:   14 December 2021
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Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema argues that art cinema draws attention to its disjointed, multi-parted form, but that criticism has too frequently sought to explain this complexity away by stitching the parts together in totalizing readings. This stitching together has often relied on the assumption that the solution to art cinema's puzzles lies in interpreting each film as the expression of a focalizing character's internal disturbance. This book challenges this assumption. It argues that the attempt to explain formal complexity through this character-centric approach reduces formal achievements and enigmatic characters to inadequate approximations of one another. Reference to character cannot fully tame unschematic and unpredictable combinations of - and collisions between - contradictory levels of narration, clashing styles, discontinuously edited shots, jarring allusions, dislocated genre signifiers, and intermedial elements. Through close analyses of films by Roberto Rossellini, Robert Bresson, Luis Buñuel, Terence Davies, Peter Greenaway, and Kelly Reichardt, Complicating Articulation in Art Cinema offers an ethics of criticism that suggests that the politics of art cinema's eccentric form are limited by character-centred readings. Each of the featured films presents inarticulate characters, whose emotional and intellectual lives are unknowable, further complicating the relationship between character and form. This book argues that, by acknowledging this resistance to interpretation, critics can think in new ways about art cinema's interrogation of the possibilities of knowledge.

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Author:   Benedict Morrison (Lecturer in Literature, Film, and Television, Lecturer in Literature, Film, and Television, The University of Exeter)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   1
Dimensions:   Width: 16.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 24.00cm
Weight:   0.486kg
ISBN:  

9780192894069


ISBN 10:   0192894064
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   14 December 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction: Articulating Art Cinema 1: Articulation in Ruins: Complicating Style in Germania anno zero 2: Telling Tales: Complicating Narration in Journal d'un cure de campagne 3: Untidying the Image: Complicating Editing in Belle de Jour 4: Queering Articulation: Complicating Bricolage in The Long Day Closes 5: The Technology of Articulation: Complicating Intermedia in The Pillow Book 6: Indecipherable Lostness: Complicating Genre in Meek's Cutoff Conclusion

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Benedict Morrison is a lecturer in Literature, Film, and Television at the University of Exeter. He was educated at Merton College, University of Oxford.

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