In Person
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-049683-8 (ISBN)
In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema delineates a new performative genre based on replay and self-awareness. The book argues that in-person reenactment, an actual person reenacting her past on camera, departs radically from other modes of mimetic reconstruction. In Person theorizes this figure's protean temporality and revisionist capabilities and it considers its import in terms of social representativity and exemplarity.
Close readings of select, historicized examples define an alternate, confessional-performative vein to understand the self-reflexive nature of postwar and post-holocaust testimonial cinemas. The book contextualizes Zavattini's proposal that in neorealism everyone should act his own story in a sort of anti-individualist, public display (Love in the City and We the Women). It checks the convergence between verité experiments, a heightened self-critique in France and the reception of psychodrama in France (Chronicle of a summer and The Human Pyramid) in the late fifties. And, through Bazin, it reflects on the quandaries of celebrity biopics: how the circularity of the star's iconography is checked by her corporeal limits (Sophia her Own Story and the docudrama Torero!).
In Person traces a shift from the exemplary and transformative ethos of fifties reenactment towards the un-redemptive stance of contemporary reenactment films such as Lanzmann's Shoah, Zhang Yuan's Sons, Andrea Tonacci's Hills of Chaos. It defines continuities between verite testimony (Chronicle, and Moi un Noir) and later para-juridical films such as the Karski Report and Rithy Panh's S21, the Khmer Rouge Killing Machine suggesting the power of co-presence and in person actualization for an ethics of viewership.
Ivone Margulies is Professor in the Department of Film & Media at Hunter College of the City University of New York.
Acknowledgements
Introduction - Estrangement and Exemplarity: In Person Reenactment
Exemplarity
Stages of Actualization
In Person the book
Chapter 1 Casting Relatives: The Spectrum of Substitution
Orson Welles' Four Men in a Raft (It's All True) Endurance: Kinship and the Exceptional Body
Reenacting Heredity: Sons
Chapter 2 Neorealist Reenactment as postwar Pedagogy
Zavattini's "Last Judgment" Cinema
The Story of Caterina
Footprints: Streetwalkers and Maggiorani's Back
Attempted Suicides: Antonioni's Singularities
Star Anonymous: Donatella Marrosu, Anna Magnani
Chapter 3 Celebrity Reenactment, Biopic and the Mortal Body
Her Own Story
Bazin's Cinemythographies
Cinema's Existential Arena
Torero Replicants
Mexican ciné-verdad, Carlos Velo, Hugo Butler, Zavattini
Chapter 4 A Sort of Psychodrama: Verité Moments 58-61
Role-play: the Real in Balance
Provisional Closure: Reflexivity and Death in The Human Pyramid
Chronicle of a summer (1960-1) as Autocritique (1958)
A "Nascent" register: Group Dynamics and the Worker
Chapter 5 Ascetic Stages: Reenactment in post-holocaust cinema
Pedovision: ritual, wandering words
Marceline Loridan, Testimony with (out) an "I"
Splitting: Oumarou Ganda's Solo
Karski's Report of a report
Filming and Re-filming: Phatic reenactment
Ascetic Stages, next
Chapter 6 Trial Stages: Rithy Panh's Para-juridical theatre
Solo Routines: the Critical valence of Alienation
Paintings, desks, files and faces: Reflexive Platforms
S21's Judicial Context
Para-juridical Scenarios and the confessional imperative
An Internal Chorus: Files and Faces
Chapter 7 Reenactment and A-filiation in Serras da Desordem
When is Carapiru?
Twenty Years Later: Brazilian films on "first" and on recurrent contact
Leading to Serras
The Actor as Agent: Carapiru, Pereio, Tonacci
A-Filiation
Disrupted Transmission
Conclusion- Senseless Mimesis
Select Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 10.01.2019 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 227 photographs |
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 234 x 165 mm |
| Gewicht | 590 g |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-049683-5 / 0190496835 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-049683-8 / 9780190496838 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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