{"product_id":"magic-realism-world-cinema-and-the-avantgarde-9781138232297","title":"Magic Realism World Cinema and the AvantGarde","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMagic 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 cinem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eForeword: Magic realism – The chronicle of a discourse ; 1. Introduction ; 2. \u003ci\u003eMagischer Realismus \u003c\/i\u003eand the ‘demon fantastic’: painting, photography, film ; 3. Ethno-magic-realist documentary: ecstatic practice ; 4. \u003ci\u003eLo real maravilloso americano: \u003c\/i\u003eprismatic 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; Coda \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019468112215,"sku":"9781138232297","price":35.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781138232297.jpg?v=1750780365","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/magic-realism-world-cinema-and-the-avantgarde-9781138232297","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}