The art of seeing, the art of listening the politics of representation in the work of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet

Zugl.: Edinburgh, Univ., Diss., 2000 u. d. T.: The art of seeing, the art of listening: the politics of form in the work of Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet

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1. Verfasser: Böser, Ursula (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Frankfurt am Main, Berlin, Bern, Wien u.a. Lang c 2004
Schriftenreihe:Medien und Fiktionen 4
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Zusammenfassung:Zugl.: Edinburgh, Univ., Diss., 2000 u. d. T.: The art of seeing, the art of listening: the politics of form in the work of Jean-Marie Straub and Daniele Huillet
Bibliography S. 219 - 233
The work of Straub/Huillet questions received notions of the essence of cinema. Against the background of the dominant stylistic paradigm of classical film style, their films challenge both the viewing and listening skills of their audience. In seeking to grasp the nature of this challenge, this thesis focuses on a feature which is common to all of Straub/Huillet's works. Taking recourse to a broad variety of representational forms, the filmmakers always engage with the specific properties and representational forms of existing works of art and documents. On the basis of four films, the formative impact of a variety of art forms and source materials is analysed. The selection includes Chronik der Anna Magdalena Bach in which the music of J.S. Bach provides the dominant aesthetic material; Einleitung zu Arnold Schoenberg's Begleitmusik zu einer Lichtspielscene, a work whose origins lie in a piece of film music for which no film had ever been made; Klassenverhältnisse, an adaptation of Franz Kafka's novel fragment Der Verschollene; and Paul Cézanne im Gespräch mit Joachim Gasquet. a film in which Cezanne's paintings are presented both as physical objects and theme. In combination with a number of other materials which feature in the films, the polyphonic music of Bach, a serial composition by Schoenberg, the prose style of Kafka and the pictorial style of Cézanne, provide the aesthetic material for the interplay between film and other art forms, which is formative of Straub/Huillet's oeuvre. A common feature emerges from the analysis of this formal and material diversity. Drawing on the distinctive features of their selected sources, the filmmakers evolve various strategies for the overt cinematic enactment of this material. A palpable split between the source material and its cinematic representation results. Stylistic operations are not merely vehicles for the transmission of meaning, but come to the fore, bringing time and space and the material features of the sounds and images to our attention. Highly unconventional forms of cinematic representation are generated in this process and classical stylistic devices are appropriated to serve new functions.
Hinweis Internationale Hölderlin Bibliographie: S. 159-204 (164-166, 178-184): "The conscientious observation of things" - reframing Cézanne
Beschreibung:Literaturverz., Bibliogr. und Filmogr. S. 219 - 241
Beschreibung:241 S
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ISBN:3631523521
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