Cinematic Vitalism: Film Theory and the Question of Life

This book draws new connections between twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice and vitalist conceptions of life from biology and philosophy. Inga Pollmann shows how the links between the two created a modernist, experimental, and cinematic strand of vitalism in and around the m...

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Main Author: Pollmann, Inga (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press [2017]
Series:Film Theory in Media History
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Summary:This book draws new connections between twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice and vitalist conceptions of life from biology and philosophy. Inga Pollmann shows how the links between the two created a modernist, experimental, and cinematic strand of vitalism in and around the movie theater. Articulated by film theorists, filmmakers, biologists, and philosophers, this cinematic vitalism maps out connections among human beings, milieus, and technologies that continue to structure our understanding of film
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Nov 2018)
Physical Description:1 online resource 30 halftones
ISBN:9789048534005

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