Beyond Realism
Naturalist Film in Theory and Practice
1st Edition
Published on 30. April 2024
280 pages
978-1-4744-2635-0 (ISBN)
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Beyond Realism: Naturalist Film in Theory and Practice is the first major critical study of international naturalist cinema. Often mistaken for realist film, international naturalist cinema has a unique cultural and critical history. From its earliest representation in silent films such as Walsh's Regeneration (1915), and Eisenstein's Stachka/Strike (1925), to recent productions such as Chukwu's Clemency (2019), and Aronofsky's The Whale (2022), the naturalist film narrative encompasses the whole of film history, traversing language, movement, and genre. The naturalist film is predicated on two foundational, intersecting paradigms that configure as one ideological system in an overarching scientific and social experimental narrative. Either the scientific or social paradigm may be dominant in the film narrative or they may simply co-exist, but a naturalist film reveals both templates and, most significantly, suggests an implicit cinematic anthropology that renders the body as an observed spectacle.
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Content
- Cover
- Half Title
- Endorsement
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Qu'est-ce que le cinéma naturaliste?
- Historical Spaces
- Naturalist Threads
- Chloé Zhao's Reclaimed West
- 2. Naturalist Tropes
- Experimental Advances
- From Sea to Seen: Realism to Naturalism
- Images in Motion
- Fault Lines
- 'Roid Rage
- Syphilis hereditaria tarda
- 3. Operative Spaces
- A Productive Species
- Invisibility Observed
- Factory Life
- The Daily Exploited
- Mining as Menace
- More Invisible
- Bottles and Bipeds
- 4. The Body Politic
- For Sale
- Covert Labor
- Grinding Streets
- Brothels/Factories
- 5. Fleshy Imagery
- Sharp Blades
- Porcine Desire
- Abattoir
- Parts of the Whole
- The Morgue
- Broken Up
- 6. Darwinian Disconnections
- Growth Signs
- Gene Pool
- Imperfect Beings
- Growing Up
- Family Portraits
- Almost Human
- Early Sightings
- 7. Moreau Narratives
- Beastly Derivations
- Dark Hearts
- Lost Cities
- Isolationism
- Beyond Moreau
- Imprisonments
- 8. Naturalist Comedy
- Painfully Funny
- Charlie's Labors
- Celebrating Idiots
- Bell Ringing
- 9. A Joker's World
- Unreal City
- Clown Time
- Weighty Issues
- Criminaloids
- Disorders
- Performing Artist
- Coda
- Index
