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Pictorialism in Cinema: Creating New Narrative Challenges

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By (author): Jarmo Valkola

This book explores the unique phenomenon of pictorialism and its connection with other arts in film and media studies. Pictorialism is motivated by the commitment to develop and increase the function and effectiveness of images, sounds, and performances that aesthetically formulate, translate, and change the effects of contemporary cinema to higher dimensions and qualities of art. The books main focus is when pictorialism as such is the major aesthetic convention used in filmmaking practice, and when pictorialism itself forms the key element of the narrative, considering a number of theoretical and practical issues of filmic narration, including: What are the main challenges of pictorial communication? How is pictorialism used in films? How far is the pictorial image a combination of the bodily performance of the characters, the surrounding landscape, and the evocative use of the soundscape? More generally, what is the state of image studies today?The first part of this book deals with the conventions of pictorialist connections in architecture, painting and photography, and their influences on cinematic representations and on film studies and film theory. The films analysed here combine various styles, but the focus is tracking down pictorialisms influences through a large spectre of matters. The next section explores pictorialisms development in Hollywood cinema, in European Cinema, in avant-garde film, and in documentary. Finally, the book concludes with three large sections devoted to the developers of modern pictorialist cinema, namely Theo Angelopoulos, Aki Kaurismäki and Béla Tarr. As such, this study offers a way to understand the main ideas, subjects and stylisation of pictorialism in cinema, to explore the main ingredients of this phenomenon, and to focus on narratives that are in the service of pictorial matters. See more
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Product Details
  • Dimensions: 148 x 212mm
  • Publication Date: 19 Sep 2016
  • Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
  • Language: English
  • ISBN13: 9781443897624

About Jarmo Valkola

Jarmo Valkola is Professor and Doctor of Philosophy having received his doctorate from the Department of Art Education at the University of Jyväskylä Finland. He is Docent at Aalto University in Helsinki Finland Docent Professor at the University of Lapland Finland and Docent at the University of Jyväskylä Finland. He is also Associate Professor of Film History and Theory at Baltic Film Media Art and Communication Institute of Tallinn University Estonia. He has written 17 books and 50 scientific articles on cinema art and aesthetics in various languages including Finnish English French Italian Turkish Greek Estonian and Hungarian.

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