Cinematic Mythmaking读书介绍
| 类别 | 页数 | 译者 | 网友评分 | 年代 | 出版社 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 书籍 | 256页 | 2010 | The MIT Press |
| 定价 | 出版日期 | 最近访问 | 访问指数 |
|---|---|---|---|
| $ 14.63 | 2010-09-01 … | 2023-03-06 … | 13 |
Film is the supreme medium for mythmaking. The gods and heroes of mythology are both larger than life and deeply human; they teach us about the world, and they tell us a good story. Similarly, our experience of film is both distant and intimate. Cinematic techniques--panning, tracking, zooming, and the other tools in the filmmaker's toolbox--create a world that is unlike reality and yet realistic at the same time. We are passive spectators, but we also have a personal relationship with the images we are seeing. In Cinematic Mythmaking, Irving Singer explores the hidden and overt use of myth in various films and, in general, the philosophical elements of a film's meaning. Mythological themes, Singer writes, perform a crucial role in cinematic art and even philosophy itself. Singer incisively disentangles the strands of different myths in the films he discusses. He finds in Preston Sturges's The Lady Eve that Barbara Stanwyck's character is not just the biblical Eve but a liberated woman of our times; Eliza Doolittle in the filmed versions of Shaw's Pygmalion is not just a statue brought to life but instead a heroic woman who must survive her own dark night of the soul. The protagonist of William Wyler's The Heiress and Anieszka Holland's Washington Square is both suffering Dido and an awakened Amazon. Singer reads Cocteau's films--including La Belle et la Bete, Orphee, and The Testament of Orpheus--as uniquely mythological cinematic poetry. He compares Kubrickean and Homeric epics and analyzes in depth the self-referential mythmaking of Federico Fellini in many of his movies, including 81/2. The aesthetic and probing inventiveness in film, Singer shows us, restores and revives for audiences in the twenty-first century myths of creation, of the questing hero, and of ideals--both secular and religious--that have had enormous significance throughout the human search for love and meaning in life.
作者简介作者简介：
欧文•辛格（Irving Singer, 1925-2015），麻省理工学院哲学教授，其电影著作有《现实的转化：电影的意蕴与技术》（1998）《三位哲学电影人：希区柯克、威尔斯、雷诺阿》（2004）《电影哲学家英格玛·伯格曼：创造力反思》（2007）《电影哲学：爱与神话》（2008）。
译者简介：
张侃侃，北京师范大学电影学博士，浙江大学传播学博士后，现任教于浙大宁波理工学院，主要从事电影理论研究。
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