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Time, memory, and representation are the key themes of Landy's volume, which is at once accessible, theoretical, and playful, dealing with cinema in all its forms. This dazzling display of virtuosity is a major work in Landy's long career. . . . Essential.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. A Crisis of the Movement-Image and Counter-history
2. History Growling at the Door: Horror and Naturalism
3. Comedy, Theatricality, and Counter-history
4. Minoritarian Cinematic Forms as Counter-history
5. Memory, the Powers of the False, and Becoming
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index

Cinema and CounterHistory

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      Publisher: Indiana University Press
      Publication Date: 15/04/2015
      ISBN13: 9780253016164, 978-0253016164
      ISBN10: 0253016169
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      Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review

      Time, memory, and representation are the key themes of Landy's volume, which is at once accessible, theoretical, and playful, dealing with cinema in all its forms. This dazzling display of virtuosity is a major work in Landy's long career. . . . Essential.

      * Choice *

      Table of Contents

      Acknowledgments
      Introduction
      1. A Crisis of the Movement-Image and Counter-history
      2. History Growling at the Door: Horror and Naturalism
      3. Comedy, Theatricality, and Counter-history
      4. Minoritarian Cinematic Forms as Counter-history
      5. Memory, the Powers of the False, and Becoming
      Epilogue
      Bibliography
      Index

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