{"product_id":"the-politics-and-poetics-of-hermann-kappelhoff-9780231170727","title":"The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism","description":"Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to individual experience (which existing political institutions cannot), he reads films by Sergei Eisenstein and Pedro Almodóvar, by the New Objectivity and the New Hollywood, to demonstrate how cinema situates spectators within society. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKappelhoff applies the Deleuzean practice of \"thinking in images\" to his analysis of films and incorporates the approaches of Jacques Rancière and Richard Rorty, who see politics in the permanent reconfiguration of poetic forms. This enables him to conceptualize film as a medium that continually renews the audiovisual spaces and temporalities through which audiences confront reality. Revitalizing the reading of films by Visconti, Fassbinder, Kubrick, Friedkin, and others, Kappelhoff affirms cinema's historical significance while discovering its engagement with politics as a realm of experience.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hermann Kappelhoff\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0231170726\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231170727\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/11\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2015","brand":"Hermann Kappelhoff","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48086434742527,"sku":"9780231170727","price":105.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4ec694de-98b9-4ed1-bce7-47275abccaba.jpg?v=1769094653","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-politics-and-poetics-of-hermann-kappelhoff-9780231170727","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}