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Cinematic Hat Tricks
Jacques Rancière, Film Fables, translated by Emiliano Battista, Oxford and New York, Berg, 2006; 196pp, £16.99 paperback.
Laura Mulvey, Death 24x a second: Stillness and the Moving Image, London, Reaktion Books, 2006; 216pp, £14.95 paperback.Tom Conley, Cartographie Cinema, Minneapolis and London, University of Minnesota Press, 2007; 264pp, $25.00 paperback.'I do not think that the notions of modernity and the avant-garde have been very enlightening when it comes to thinking about the new forms of art that have emerged since the last century', remarks Rancière in The Politics of Aesthetics, a book that comes before Film Fables. When Film Fables then opens with a citation from Jean Epstein, both a modernist and a member of the cinematic avant-garde, a confrontation is set in place. 'Cinema is true. The story is a lie', ends the quotation, dismissing the ...See the full content of this document
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