Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity

by Leo Bersani, Ulysse Dutoit

Overview

In each of the films discussed in this study - 'Le Mepris', 'All About My Mother', 'The Thin Red Line' - something extraordinary is proposed. Or if not proposed, then shown, visually, by stranger and more powerful means than narrative or argument.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781838715847
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	07/25/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	184
File size:	25 MB
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About the Author

Leo Bersani was until recently the Class of 1950 Professor of French and Ulysse Dutoit is Lecturer in Film, both at the University of California, Berkeley. They are the authors of Forms of Violence: Narrative in Assyrian Art and Modern Culture (1985), Arts of Impoverishment: Beckett, Rothko, Resnais (1993), Caravaggio's Secrets (1998), and a monograph on Derek Jarman's Caravaggio in the BFI Modern Classics series (1999).