Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: 'The sanguine, pulsating, enterprising modern life': Cinema and Vitalism -- 1. Vitalism and Abstraction: Rhythm and Non-Organic Life from Hans Richter to Sergei Eisenstein -- 2. New Worlds: Uexküll's Umwelt Theory at the Movies -- 3. The Interweaving of World and Self: Transformations of Mood in Expressionist and Kammerspiel Film -- 4. Open Bodies, Open Stories: Evolution, Narration, and Spectatorship in Post-war Film Theory -- Conclusion: Vital Media -- Bibliography -- Index of Films -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects
This book draws new connections between twentieth-century German and French film theory and practice and vitalist conceptions of life from biology and philosophy. Inga Pollmann shows how the links between the two created a modernist, experimental, and cinematic strand of vitalism in and around the movie theater. Articulated by film theorists, filmmakers, biologists, and philosophers, this cinematic vitalism maps out connections among human beings, milieus, and technologies that continue to structure our understanding of film.
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Motion pictures--Philosophy. Vitalism in motion pictures. Vitalism--In motion pictures. Film Studies. Film, Media, and Communication. PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / General.
Film Theory. Film and Modernity. Film and Philosophy. Film and Science. German Cinema. Vitalism.