Film Fables

by Jacques Ranciere, Emiliano Battista (Translator)

Overview

Film Fables traces the history of modern cinema. Encyclopedic in scope, Film Fables is that rare work that manages to combine extraordinary breadth and analysis with a lyricism which attests time and again to a love of cinema.

Jacques Ranciere moves effortlessly from Eisenstein's and Murnau's transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang's confrontation with television, from the classical poetics of Mann's Westerns to Ray's romantic poetics of the image, from Rossellini's neo-realism to Deleuze's philosophy of the cinema and Marker's documentaries.

The Film Fable shows us how, between its images and its stories, the cinema tells its truth.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781845201685
Publisher:	Berg Publishers
Publication date:	02/01/2006
Series:	Talking Images
Edition description:	Translatio
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.43(d)

About the Author

Jacques Ranciere is Professor of Aesthetics and Politics at the University of Paris-VIII (St. Denis). His translated works include: The Politics of Aesthetics: The Limits of Art and Politics, The Philosopher and his Poor, Dis-agreement: Politics and Philosophy, and The Names of History.

Translated from the French by Emiliano Battista, a doctoral student in Philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven and a free-lance translator.

Table of Contents

Prologue: A Thwarted Fable * Part I: FABLES OF THE VISIBLE * Between the age of the theatre and the television age * Eisenstein's Madness * A Silent Tartuffe * From One Manhunt to Another: Fritz Lang Between Two Ages * The Child Director * Part II: CLASSICAL NARRATIVE, ROMANTIC NARRATIVE * Some Things To Do: The Poetics of Anthony Mann * The Missing Shot: The Poetics of Nicholas Ray * Part III: IF THERE IS A CINEMATOGRAPHIC MODERNITY * From One Image to Another? Deleuze and the Ages of Cinema * Falling Bodies: Rossellini's Physics * The Red of La Chinoise: Godard's Politics * Part IV: FABLES OF THE CINEMA, (HI)STORIES OF A CENTURY * Documentary Fiction: Marker and the Fiction of Memory * A Fable Without a Moral: Godard, Cinema, (Hi)stories * List of Films * Sources and Acknowledgments