Writ on Water: The Sources and Reach of Film Imagination eBook

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Writ on Water
The Sources and Reach of Film Imagination
A powerful and original statement on the nature of film and the intimate relation of “film imagination” to our lives as human beings in the world. This eloquent book draws on the author’s responses to a wide range of extraordinary films-“long takes” on Altman’s Nashville, Godard’s Hail Mary, Makavejev’s WR: Mysteries of the Organism, and von Sternberg’s Blonde Venus, as well as “short takes” on films by Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Chantal Akerman, Ross McElwee, Michelangelo Antonioni, Michael Haneke, and Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne. Charles Warren’s masterful close readings blend profound philosophical reflections with a treasure trove of literary and artistic references to place film, in its relations to other arts, as one of the greatest aesthetic forms. Collectively, these essays offer an original and powerful statement on the nature of film and the intimate relation of what the author calls “film imagination” to our lives as human beings in the world. This important and much-needed book is no less than a celebration and affirmation of the very discipline of film criticism. One is left with one’s appetite for film refreshed.

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Writ on Water: The Sources and Reach of Film Imagination is written by Charles Warren and published by Suny Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Writ on Water are 9781438488110, 1438488114 and the print ISBNs are 9781438488097, 1438488092. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9781438488103.