Beyond Realism

Naturalist Film in Theory and Practice

AvRobert Singer

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Beyond Realism: Naturalist Film in Theory and Practice is the first major critical study of international naturalist cinema. Often mistaken for realist film, international naturalist cinema has a unique cultural and critical history. From its earliest representation in silent films such as Walsh's Regeneration (1915), and Eisenstein's Stachka/Strike (1925), to recent productions such as Chukwu's Clemency (2019), and Aronofsky's The Whale (2022), the naturalist film narrative encompasses the whole of film history, traversing language, movement, and genre. The naturalist film is predicated on two foundational, intersecting paradigms that configure as one ideological system in an overarching scientific and social experimental narrative. Either the scientific or social paradigm may be dominant in the film narrative or they may simply co-exist, but a naturalist film reveals both templates and, most significantly, suggests an implicit cinematic anthropology that renders the body as an observed spectacle.

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Utgivningsdatum:2025-12-31
Mått:225 x 19 x 150 mm
Vikt:385 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474426343

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Robert Singer, Professor of Liberal Studies, CUNY Graduate Center [ret]. He received a Ph.D. from New York University in Comparative Literature. His areas of expertise include literary and film interrelations, interdisciplinary research in film history and aesthetics, and comparative studies. He is the ReFocus: American and International Film series co-editor for Edinburgh University Press. He has written and directed several independent short films and co-produced the animated film, Ulalume (2022). Among his more recent publications are Consuming Images: Film Art and the Television Commercial (EUP, 2020), co-authored with Gary Rhodes, and “A View from the Boardwalk: The W.P.A. New York City Guide and Coney Island Hypertext,” in Rewriting America: New Essays on the Federal Writers’ Project, ed. Sara Rutkowski, (2022).

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"Robert Singer’s Beyond Realism: Naturalist Film in Theory and Practice is a comprehensive guide to naturalistic film; Singer has been the leading global expert on this topic for many years. His book is a life’s work. He is able to move from the dark corners and sharp bright angles of early film to similar naturalist concerns in cinema today: social struggle, poverty, homelessness, violence, injustice, the naturalistic body, psychological conflicts, and many other features. It’s an erudite but engaging read and a must for any naturalist or film student."

Innehållsförteckning

Chapter One: IntroductionChapter Two: Naturalist TropesChapter Three: Operative SpacesChapter Four: The Body PoliticChapter Five: Fleshy ImageryChapter Six: Darwinian DisconnectionsChapter Seven: Moreau NarrativesChapter Eight: Naturalist comedyChapter Nine: A Joker’s WorldIndex