Are the dead alive now pdf
I am ashamed to admit but I had to skip the whole section on Latour and Harman which was a bit over my head The rest is an elegantly written and tightly argued new take on figural analysis focused specifically on the figures of corpses in three films Ophuls THE RECKLESS MOMENT Varda s VAGABOND SANS TOIT NI LOI and Sue Brooks JAPANESE STORY a 2003 Australian film that I ve never heard of Paperback Paperback
In the cinema many were living and many kept on living and many became dead as Gertrude Stein might say Some kept on living and some kept on being dead and some became things Bodies proliferate in cinema Living bodies to be sure but also dead bodies and transitional bodies suspended between the being of a subject and objecthood We tend to use the same word to designate both a living and a dead body We also of course use the word corpse Dead is dead no doubt but if there are degrees of deadness then a corpse is probably deader than a dead body Lesley Stern is interested in things than in death It is thus the liveli ness of corpses that lures her Not dead bodies which act as though they were alive nor live bodies which may really be dead nor bodies which may in fact be composited or even digitally constructed bodies Rather ordinary old fashioned bodies bodies once living and now dead which exhibit a performa tive potential for conjuring a quality of cinematic thingness They are bodies that insist on existing after they are dead In some films in which dead bodies persist time is concentrated in the body And dispersed When life leaves the body time or a particular quality of time enters into the body and into the film The body then becomes an index of cinematic temporality Published by caboose books Montreal Distributed worldwide excluding Canada by Rutgers University Press Dead and Alive The Body as a Cinematic Thing Kino Agora
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