The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism
ISBN: 9780231539319
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Columbia University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Political aspects; Politics in motion pictures; Motion pictures -- Aesthetics;

Casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment.

Hermann Kappelhoff is a professor in the Department for Film Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. He is the author of Matrix der Gefühle: Das Kino, das Melodrama und das Theater der Empfindsamkeit , a major study on the cinematic melodrama as a paradigm of artificial emotions.

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