Film Fables (Talking Images)

Film Fables traces the history of modern cinema, moving effortlessly from Eisenstein's and Murnau's transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang's confrontation with television, from the classical poetics of Mann's Westerns to Ray's romantic poetics of the image, from Rossellini's neo-realism to Deleuze's philosophy of the cinema and Marker's documentaries. Fables of the visible: between the age of the theater and the television age. Eisenstein's madness A silent tartuffe From one manhunt to another: Fritz Lang between two ages The child director Classical narrative, romantic narrative. Some things to do: the poetics of Anthony Mann The missing shot: the poetics of Nicholas Ray If there is a cinematographic modernity. From one image to another? Deleuze and the ages of cinema Falling bodies: Rossellini's physics The red of La Chinoise: Godard's politics Fables of the cinema, (hi)stories of a century. Documentary fiction: marker and the fiction of memory A fable without a moral: Godard, cinema, (hi)stories. "Film Fables traces the history of modern cinema. Encyclopedic in scope, Film Fables is that rare work that manages to combine extraordinary breadth and analysis with a lyricism that attests time and again to a love of cinema. Jacques Ranciere moves effortlessly from Eisenstein's and Murnau's transition from theater to film to Fritz Lang's confrontation with television; from the classical poetics of Mann's Westerns to Ray's romantic poetics of the image; from Rossellini's neo-realism to Deleuze's philosophy of the cinema and Marker's documentaries. Film Fables shows us how, between its images and its stories, the cinema tells the truth."--BOOK JACKET. Film Fables traces the history of modern cinema. Encyclopedic in scope, Film Fables is that rare work that manages to combine extraordinary breadth and analysis with a lyricism which attests time and again to a love of cinema. Jacques Ranciere moves effortlessly from Eisenstein's and Murnau's transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang's confrontation with television, from the classical poetics of Mann's Westerns to Ray's romantic poetics of the image, from Rossellini's neo-realism to Deleuze's philosophy of the cinema and Marker's documentaries. The Film Fable shows us how, between its images and its stories, the cinema tells its truth.