Prelude: The Tree of History
Introduction: The Cinematographic Forms of History
Disciplinary Uncertainties
Cinema as Historian
Cinema and History: An Analogy of the “Half-Cooked State”
Cinema Pursues the Path of History to Reveal What Is Hidden Even from Memory
The Sensible Fabric of the World
1. Foreclosed Forms: How Images of Mass Death Reemerged in Modern Cinema
The Look-to-Camera: A Modern Form of History
The Gaze of Death in Action
How History Reemerges Through Cinema
Alain Resnais and the Editing of Time
Monsieur Verdoux, or How Chaplin Puts to Death His Inner Wandering Jew
“Faces with Black, Rat-Like Eyes”
Hitchcock and the Indelible Corpse
Man Alone in the Face of the Machine of Death
Mass Death: Neither Reconstruction nor Mise-en-scène
2. From Versailles to the Silver Screen: Sacha Guitry, Historian of France
“Doing Versailles”: Controversial Project and Historical Polemic
Guitry and the Revenge of History
A Certain Vision of History
The Spectacle of Court Society
3. “Me? Uh, Nothing!” The French New Wave, Politics, and History
Hussar Thought
A Cinema “That Has Nothing to Say”
Heroes of the New Wave and Militants of Disarray
Politicization via Malraux
An Intrinsically Political Cinema: Filming Life with Style
The Algerian War: The Intimate Drama of the New Wave
Torture: The Limit Experience of the New Wave
A Political Janus-Face
4. Peter Watkins, Live from History: The Films, Style, and Method of Cinema’s Special Correspondent
Making War Through Making Films
The Time of Filmed Reportage
The Trials and Tribulations of an Exiled Filmmaker
The Deathblow as a Stylistic Form
Edvard Munch, or How to Resist the Passage of Time
The Watkins Way: History in Common
The Besieged Citadel and the Martyr Figure
The Alter-Filmmaker
5. The Theory of Sparks: A History in Images, According to Jean-Luc Godard
Taking Art Out of the Museum and Projecting It into History
From Langlois to Godard: A Historical Passage Through Images
From The Voices of Silence to Histoire(s) du cinéma, or, The Fraternity of Metaphors
The Historiographical Virtue of Histoire(s) du cinéma
Can Histoire(s) Redeem History?
6. Demodern Aesthetics: Filming the End of Communism
A Demodern Collapse
Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker: Communism Put to the Test of the Zone
Alexei Guerman’s Khrustalyov, My Car! Communism at the Bottom of History’s Closet
Aleksandr Sokurov’s Russian Ark: Communism Sapped by Nostalgia
Emir Kusturica’s Underground: Into the Bowels of Communism
A Few Images for “Those Who Are Lost”
7. America Unraveled: Master Fictions in Contemporary Hollywood Cinema
Revealing Resurgences: Under the Whip of Catwoman
End-of-the-World Films
“Very Bad Films”: Inside the Laboratory of Bad-Taste Films
Tim Burton, America’s Primitive
American Cinema Put to the Test of 9/11
Conclusion: All Histories Are Possible
Notes
Illustration Credits
Index
發表於2024-11-07
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