The astounded soul
副标题: Cinematic time and photogenic love (Wim Wenders, Agnes Varda, Hirokazu Kore-eda) (Germany, France, Japan)
ISBN: 9780542153907
出版社: ProQuest / UMI
出版年: 2006-03-19
定价: USD 69.99
装帧: Paperback
内容简介
“The Astounded Soul: Cinematic Time and Photogenic Love” derives its title from Richard Wilbur's poem “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World,” which lyrically presents the issues with which this dissertation contends: the negotiation of time and sensation within an aesthetic framework; the alternation and simultaneity of mechanistic and sensorial relationships to world and time; and a perception granted and gaining significance through love. As astonishment expressed within aesthetic form and the mechanized world, “love calls” our benevolent attention to attend to and create an inspired significance and existence. Drawing from theoretical work by Sylviane Agacinski, Roland Barthes, Walter Benjamin, Mary Ann Doane, and Jean Epstein, this dissertation illustrates how cinematic time and love privilege subjectivity, idealization, and mutability: the endurance of an emergent and idealized form within ephemeral time characterizes both love and cinema. Both cinematic time and love privilege an expression of subjectivity reliant upon yet confounding of distance and intimacy. Time's continuity and intensity, as well as love's abundance and possibility, gain subjective and aesthetic momentum within the realm of cinematic time. Both cinema and love express mutability and dynamism while yet allowing for finitude and familiarity; both love and cinema enliven familiar forms, thereby allowing for our astonishment. Within the temporal transgressions and seductive sensations inherent in both love and cinematic time, we glimpse significance and attachment beyond the binary of ephemera and duration. Each chapter clarifies and concretizes these temporal and amorous idealizations within extensive film analyses. Chapter One outlines my correlation of love and cinematic time. Chapter Two considers history and the romance through Wim Wenders'