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Cover 1 Title Page, Copyright, Epigraph 2 Contents 8 List of plates 10 Series editors’ foreword 12 Acknowledgements 14 Abbreviations 16 Introduction: Epstein at the crossroads 18 1. From literary modernism to photogénie 34 2. Avant-garde working-class melodramas 66 3. Technology, embodiment, and homosexuality 84 4. Brittany, the edge of the modern world 114 5. Documentaries and sound films 133 6. ‘A young Spinoza’: Epstein’s philosophy of the cinema 162 Conclusion: Epstein as pioneer of corporeal cinema 192 Filmography 206 Select bibliography 222 Index 225 Image Plates 230 Publisher:Manchester University Press,Published:2016,ISBN:9781526111371,Language:English,OCLC:981546652 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 oeuvre comprehensively. An avant-garde artist and an anti-elitist intellectual, Epstein wanted to craft moments of pure transformative cinema. Using familiar genres – melodramas

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Author

Author.;Epstein, Jean;Ingram, Robert;Wall-Romana, Christophe

Publisher

Manchester University Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780719086236

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Performing Arts, Philosophy, Sports