The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism

by Hermann Kappelhoff

Book Overview

Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to individual experience (which existing political institutions cannot), he reads films by Sergei Eisenstein and Pedro Almod var, by the New Objectivity and the New Hollywood, to demonstrate how cinema situates spectators within society.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231170734
• ISBN13: 9780231170734
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"