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Book SynopsisMediamorphosis compiles articles by some of today’s leading forces in the scholarship of Kafka as well as film studies to provide a thorough investigation of the reciprocal relations between Kafka’s work and the cinematic medium.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Notes on Contributors Introduction, by Ido Lewit and Shai Biderman Part I. The Cinematic Kafka Kafka, Rumour, Early Cinema: Archaic Moving Pictures, by Paul North Sebald Goes to the Movies: Reading Kafka as Cinematography, by Nimrod Matan The Ghost Is Clear: The POV of the Daydreamer, by Laurence A. Rickels Moving Pictures-Visual Pleasures: Kafka's Cinematic Writing, by Peter Beicken To Move as the Image Moves: The Rule of Rhythmic Presence and Absence in Kafka's The Man Who Disappeared, by Tobias Kuehne Noises Off: Cinematic Sound in Kafka's 'The Burrow', by Kata Gellen Gesture, Wardrobe, Backdrop and Prop in Franz Kafka's The Man Who Disappeared and Peter Weir's The Truman Show, by Idit Alphandary The Possibility of the Cinematic in 'The Metamorphosis' and 'The Burrow', by Kevin W. Sweeney Part II. The Kafkaesque Cinema 'The Essential Is Sufficient': The Kafka Adaptations of Orson Welles, Straub-Huillet and Michael Haneke, by Martin Brady and Helen Hughes K., the Tramp, and the Cinematic Vision: The Kafkaesque Chaplin, by Shai Biderman 'The Medium Is the Message': Cronenberg 'Outkafkas' Kafka, by Iris Bruce The Absurdity of Human Existence: 'The Metamorphosis' and The Fly, by William J. Devlin and Angel M. Cooper 'This Is Not Nothing': Viewing the Coen Brothers Through the Lens of Kafka, by Ido Lewit The Face: K. and Keaton, by Omri Ben-Yehuda Translating Kafka into Italian: Kafkaesque Themes in Eilo Petri's Films, by Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Leonardo Acosta Lando Epilogue: A Personal Quest Into the Cinematic Kafkaesque Magic, Mystery and Miracle: Re-spiralling Marker and Kafka, by Dan Geva Transcribing Kafka Into Film: A Tortuous Love-Story, by Henry Sussman Index
