Magic Realism, World Cinema, and the Avant-Garde: The Avant-Garde in Exile (Remapping World Cinema) - 9781138232297

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This book follows the hybrid and contradictory history of magic realism through the writings of three key figures - art historian Franz Roh, novelist Alejo Carpentier, and cultural critic Fredric Jameson - drawing links between their political, aesthetic, and philosophical ideas on art's relationship to reality. Magic realism is vast in scope, spanning almost a century, and is often confused with neighbouring styles of literature or art, most notably surrealism. The fascinating conditions of modernist Europe are complex and contradictory, a spirit that magic realism has taken on as it travels far and wide. The filmmakers and writers in this book acknowledge the importance of feeling, atmosphere, and mood to subtly provoke and resist global capitalism. Theirs is the history of magic-realist cinema. The book explores this history through the modernist avant-garde in search of a new theory of cinematic magic realism. It uncovers a resistant, geopolitical form of world cinema - moving from Europe, through Latin America, and the former Soviet Union, to Thailand - that emerges from these ideas. This book is invaluable to any reader interested in world modernism(s) in relation to contemporary cinema and geopolitics. Its sustained analysis of film as a sensory, intermedial medium is of interest to scholars working across the visual arts, literature, critical theory, and film-philosophy.


  • | Author: Felicity Gee
  • | Publisher: Routledge
  • | Publication Date: April 22, 2021
  • | Number of Pages: 224 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 1138232297
  • | ISBN-13: 9781138232297
Author:
Felicity Gee
Publisher:
Routledge
Publication Date:
April 22, 2021
Number of pages:
224 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1138232297
ISBN-13:
9781138232297