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Book SynopsisComplicating Articulation in Art Cinema argues that art cinema draws attention to its disjointed, multi-parted form, but that criticism has too frequently sought to explain this complexity away by stitching the parts together in totalizing readings. This stitching together has often relied on the assumption that the solution to art cinema''s puzzles lies in interpreting each film as the expression of a focalizing character''s internal disturbance. This book challenges this assumption. It argues that the attempt to explain formal complexity through this character-centric approach reduces formal achievements and enigmatic characters to inadequate approximations of one another. Reference to character cannot fully tame unschematic and unpredictable combinations of - and collisions between - contradictory levels of narration, clashing styles, discontinuously edited shots, jarring allusions, dislocated genre signifiers, and intermedial elements. Through close analyses of films by Roberto Ros
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Articulating Art Cinema 1: Articulation in Ruins: Complicating Style in Germania anno zero 2: Telling Tales: Complicating Narration in Journal d'un curé de campagne 3: Untidying the Image: Complicating Editing in Belle de Jour 4: Queering Articulation: Complicating Bricolage in The Long Day Closes 5: The Technology of Articulation: Complicating Intermedia in The Pillow Book 6: Indecipherable Lostness: Complicating Genre in Meek's Cutoff Conclusion
