Writ on Water
The Sources and Reach of Film Imagination
1st Edition
Published on 1. April 2022
280 pages
978-1-4384-8811-0 (ISBN)
Description
A powerful and original statement on the nature of film and the intimate relation of "film imagination" to our lives as human beings in the world.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel/Berlin/Boston
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Digital original
Product notice
Reflowable
Illustrations
Total Illustrations: 40
Total Illustrations: 40
ISBN-13
978-1-4384-8811-0 (9781438488110)
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10/2022
State University of New York Press
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04/2022
State University of New York Press
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Person
Charles Warren (1948-2021) was Senior Lecturer in the Film and Television Department at Boston University and Associate of the Visual and Environmental Studies Department at Harvard University. He was the editor or coeditor of several collections of essays, including Beyond Document: Essays on Nonfiction Film; Making Dead Birds: Chronicle of a Film; and Looking with Robert Gardner (with Rebecca Meyers and William Rothman), also published by SUNY Press.
Content
Introduction
Long Takes
1. Nashville, West of the West
2. Whim, God, and the Screen: Jean-Luc Godard's Hail Mary
3. Earth and Beyond: On WR: Mysteries of the Organism
4. Blonde Venus: Experiment Successful beyond All Dreams
Short Takes
5. The Path of Art in Chronicle of a Summer and Le joli mai
6. Fiction and Nonfiction in Chantal Akerman's Films
7. Surprise and Pain, Writing and Film: On Ross McElwee's Time Indefinite
8. Two Women in L'Avventura
9. The Unknown Piano Teacher
10. Three Immersions: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Rosetta
Postscript: The Integrity of Film
Notes
Works Cited
Index
Long Takes
1. Nashville, West of the West
2. Whim, God, and the Screen: Jean-Luc Godard's Hail Mary
3. Earth and Beyond: On WR: Mysteries of the Organism
4. Blonde Venus: Experiment Successful beyond All Dreams
Short Takes
5. The Path of Art in Chronicle of a Summer and Le joli mai
6. Fiction and Nonfiction in Chantal Akerman's Films
7. Surprise and Pain, Writing and Film: On Ross McElwee's Time Indefinite
8. Two Women in L'Avventura
9. The Unknown Piano Teacher
10. Three Immersions: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Rosetta
Postscript: The Integrity of Film
Notes
Works Cited
Index
