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Jean Epstein

Corporeal Cinema and Film Philosophy (book in English)

by Christophe Wall-Romana

Type
Studies
Subject
DirectorJean Epstein
Keywords
Jean Epstein
Publishing Date
2016
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Collection
French Film Directors
Language
English
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Paperback • 272 pages • 20 €
5 x 7 ¾ inches (12.5 x 19.5 cm)
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ISBN
978-1-7849-9348-1
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Book Presentation:
If cinema can be approached as poetry and philosophy, it is because of Jean Epstein. Cocteau, Buñuel (who was his assistant), Hitchcock, Pasolini and Godard, and theoreticians Kracauer, Deleuze and Rancière are directly influenced by Epstein's pioneering film work, writings, and concepts. This book is the first in English to examine his œuvre comprehensively.

An avant-garde artist and an anti-elitist intellectual, Epstein wanted to craft moments of pure transformative cinema. Using familiar genres - melodramas and documentaries - he hoped to heal viewers of all classes and hasten social utopia. A lover of cinema as cognitive and sensorial technology, and a poet of the screen, he pushed cinematography - as photogénie - towards the experimental sublime, through daring close-ups, rhythmic montage, slow motion, even reverse motion.

Polish-born, half-Jewish, and the author of a treatise on homosexuality, Epstein has been unfairly relegated to the shadows of film history. This book restores him to the limelight of interwar world cinema, on a par with Renoir, Lang, Capra and Eisenstein.

See the publisher website: Manchester University Press

See the complete filmography of Jean Epstein on the website: IMDB ...

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