Jean Epstein

Informationen zum Autor Christophe Wall-Romana is Associate Professor in the Department of French and Italian and Affiliated Faculty in Moving Image Studies at the University of Minnesota Klappentext This is the first comprehensive study of Jean Epstein's fiction and documentary films, film theory, and writings on poetry and homosexuality.The book unfolds the intellectual trajectory of Epstein and restores him to the limelight of interwar world cinema, on a par with Renoir, Lang, Capra and Eisenstein. Zusammenfassung This is the first comprehensive study of Jean Epstein's fiction and documentary films! film theory! and writings on poetry and homosexuality. The book unfolds the intellectual trajectory of Epstein and restores him to the limelight of interwar world cinema! on a par with Renoir! Lang! Capra and Eisenstein. -- . Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Editors' ForewordIntroduction: Epstein at the crossroadsChapter 1: From literary modernism to photogénieChapter 2: Avant-garde working class melodramasChapter 3: Technology, embodiment and homosexualityChapter 4: Brittany, the edge of the modern worldChapter 5: Documentaries and sound filmsChapter 6: 'A young Spinoza': philosophy of the cinemaConclusion: Epstein as pioneer of corporeal cinemaFilmographySelect BibliographyIndex

Klappentext

This is the first comprehensive study of Jean Epstein's fiction and documentary films, film theory, and writings on poetry and homosexuality. The book unfolds the intellectual trajectory of Epstein and restores him to the limelight of interwar world cinema, on a par with Renoir, Lang, Capra and Eisenstein.

Zusammenfassung
This is the first comprehensive study of Jean Epsteinâ™s fiction and documentary films, film theory, and writings on poetry and homosexuality. The book unfolds the intellectual trajectory of Epstein and restores him to the limelight of interwar world cinema, on a par with Renoir, Lang, Capra and Eisenstein. -- .

Inhalt

Series Editors' Foreword Introduction: Epstein at the crossroads Chapter 1: From literary modernism to photogénie Chapter 2: Avant-garde working class melodramas Chapter 3: Technology, embodiment and homosexuality Chapter 4: Brittany, the edge of the modern world Chapter 5: Documentaries and sound films Chapter 6: 'A young Spinoza': philosophy of the cinema Conclusion: Epstein as pioneer of corporeal cinema Filmography Select Bibliography Index