Magic Realism World Cinema and the Avant Garde 1st Edition by Felicity Gee 1315312794 9781315312798

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• ISBN 10:1315312794
• ISBN 13:9781315312798
• Author:Felicity Gee

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.

Table contents:

1 Introduction
2 Magischer Realismus and the ‘demon fantastic’: Painting, photography, film
3 Ethno-magic-realist documentary: Ecstatic practice
4 Lo real maravilloso americano: Prismatic reality and the screen
5 Magic realism: The prehensile toe – Jameson, Magritte, and affect
6 ‘Soviet magic realism’ and world cinema
7 Hyperreality, understatement, atmosphere, and ambivalence

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