Jan Svankmajer

Keith Leslie Johnson (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

210 Seiten

2017
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08302-0 (ISBN)

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Jan Svankmajer enjoys a curious sort of anti-reputation: he is famous for being obscure. Unapologetically surrealist, Svankmajer draws on the traditions and techniques of stop-motion animation, collage, montage, puppetry, and clay to craft bizarre filmscapes. If these creative choices are off-putting to some, they have nonetheless won the Czech filmmaker recognition as a visionary animator. Keith Leslie Johnson explores Svankmajer's work as a cinema that spawns new and weird life forms "hybrids of machine, animal, and non-organic materials like stone and dust. Johnson's ambitious approach unlocks access to the director's world, a place governed by a single, uncanny order of being where all things are at once animated and inert. For Svankmajer, everything is at stake in every aspect of life, whether that life takes the form of an object, creature, or human. Sexuality, social bonds, religious longings "all get recapitulated on the stage of inanimate things. In Johnson's view, Svankmajer stands as the proponent of a biopolitical, ethical, and ecological outlook that implores us to reprogram our relationship with the vital matter all around us, including ourselves and our bodies.

Keith Leslie Johnson is a lecturer of English and film and media studies at the College of William and Mary.

CoverTitleContentsAcknowledgmentsANIMIST CINEMAHumiliation, or Object LifeOn the Marionette CinemaAnti-Illusion: Fantasy in G Minor and Et CeteraCombinatorics: The Last Trick and Game with StonesTragedies without Actors: The Ossuary and Fall of the House of UsherWunderkammer, or Creaturely LifeAmateur Play: Historia naturaeImpersonal Play: Picnic with WeissmannChild's Play: Down to the Cellar, Alice, and Little OtikHaptics, or Animal LifeYou Are What You Eat: FoodThe Art of Conversation: Dimensions of DialoguePlease Touch: Conspirators of PleasureImagination, or Political LifeAs Above, So Below: Faust(Ab)normalization: The Flat, A Quiet Week in the House, and The Death of Stalinism in BohemiaAbsolute Freedom: LunacySurvival, or Ecological LifeFlat Ontology: Surviving LifeEthical Misanthropy: HmyzINTERVIEWS WITH JAN SVANKMAJERFilmographyBibliographyIndex

Erscheinungsdatum	29.01.2018
Zusatzinfo	25 black & white photographs, filmography
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
ISBN-10	0-252-08302-4 / 0252083024
ISBN-13	978-0-252-08302-0 / 9780252083020
Zustand	Neuware