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Making a compelling argument for the continuing relevance of Brechtian film theory and cinema, this book offers new research and analysis of Brecht the film and media theorist, placing his scattered writings on the subject within the lively film theory debates that took place in Europe between the 1920s-1960s. Furthermore, Angelos Koutsourakis identifies key points of convergence between Brecht's `unfinished project' and contemporary film and media theory. With case studies of films ranging from Robert Roberto Rossellini's `Paisà' to Bernardo Bertolucci's `1900' and Joshua Oppenheimer's `The Act of Killing' amongst others, this study challenges many existing preconceptions about Brecht's theoretical position and invites readers to discover new ways of apprehending and making use of Brecht in film studies.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1: Brechtian Film Theory
Chapter 1: Key Concepts
The Dialectic
The Individual as a Nexus
The Gestic Principle: Between Brecht, Eisenstein, and Deleuze
Gestus and Cultural Techniques
'Humour is a Sense of Distance'
Chapter 2: Photography and Film
The Photographic Image
The Apparatus and the Agency of the Machine
Chapter 3: Modernism as Realism
Brecht, Bazin, and Lukács
On Sound/Music
Some Thoughts on Brecht and Genre
Chapter 4: Brecht in Film Theory
From Close Up to the Grand Theory
Noël Burch
The Cognitivist Critique
Rancière and the post-Brechtian
Part 2: Brechtian Cinema
The Revisionist History Film
Chapter 5: Re-visioning History
Defining the Revisionist History Film
Totality is history: Szegénylegények (The Round-Up, 1966) and Allonsanfàn (1974)
Chapter 6: Revisiting National Traumas
Dealing with Fascism: Professor Mamlock (1961), Das schreckliche Mädchen (The Nasty Girl, 1990)
Epic Cinema: Ο Θίασος (The Travelling Players, 1975), 1900 (1976)
The Essay Film
Chapter 7: Beyond Auteurism: the Dialectics of the Essay Film
The Disappearance of the Subject in Writing
Representation as Unfinished Material: Thomas Heise's Material (2009)
Chapter 8: Pedagogical Essay Films
Agitprop and the Crisis: Brecht die Macht der Manipulateure (Break the Power of the Manipulators, 1967), Fascism Inc. (2014)
The Lehrstück on Film: La Commune (Paris, 1871) (2000), The Act of Killing (2012)
Cinemas of Cruelty
Chapter 9: Brecht and Artaud
The Politics of Cruelty: Brecht and Artaud
From Theatre to Film: The Brig (1964), Marat/Sade (1967)
Chapter 10: Cruelty as Anti-commodity
Everyday Fascism: Import/Export (2007), The Rebellion of Red Maria (2011)
The Postdramatic on Screen: Katzelmacher (1969), Die linkshändige Frau (The Left-handed Woman, 1978)
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
