Title Information
Title
Affirmed at the Margins: Lacunary Realism in Contemporary Film and Film Theory
Type of Resource (primo)
dissertations
Name: Personal
Name Part
Theus, Tyler A
Role
Role Term: Text
creator
Name: Personal
Name Part
Copjec, Joan
Role
Role Term: Text
Advisor
Name: Personal
Name Part
Joyrich, Lynne
Role
Role Term: Text
Advisor
Name: Personal
Name Part
Rosen, Philip
Role
Role Term: Text
Advisor
Name: Corporate
Name Part
Brown University. Department of Modern Culture and Media
Role
Role Term: Text
sponsor
Origin Information
Copyright Date
2021
Physical Description
Extent
8, 286 p.
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born digital
Note: thesis
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Brown University, 2021
Genre (aat)
theses
Abstract
This dissertation argues for the political and aesthetic significance of a group of contemporary realist films that employ a non-presentational, lacunary aesthetic. Through close analyses of the aesthetics of offscreen space in slow cinema, I argue that contemporary forms of realist filmmaking are as concerned with setting limits on what can be represented and commodified as they are with recording, representing, and producing reality. Along the way, I offer new readings of Bazinian and Lacanian film theory in order to develop a framework for thinking cinematic realism in the post-analogue era, one that moves beyond a fascination with immediacy and direct presentation.
Subject
Topic
Film theory
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Topic
Realist Film theory
Subject
Topic
Global Art Cinema
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Topic
Bazin, André, 1918-1958
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Topic
Jean-Louis Comolli
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Topic
Slow cinema
Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00050728")
Topic
Lacan, Jacques, 1901-1981
Subject
Topic
offscreen space
Subject
Topic
Psychoanalytic Film Theory
Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01428653")
Topic
Hou, Xiaoxian, 1947-
Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00092100")
Topic
Oliveira, Manoel de, 1908-2015
Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01917320")
Topic
Tarr, Béla, 1955-
Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/00208518")
Topic
Herzog, Werner
Subject (fast) (authorityURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast", valueURI="http://id.worldcat.org/fast/01602948")
Topic
Jia, Zhangke, 1970-
Language
Language Term (ISO639-2B)
English
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RPB
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20211004