{"product_id":"nothing-happens-9780822317234","title":"Nothing Happens","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one of the most significant filmmakers working today. This title presents the study of this influential avant-garde Belgian filmmaker.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A fine writer and a skilled and gifted critic, Margulies offers many new insights into Akerman’s important work. The readings of Akerman’s films—in particular the contextualization of the work in a wider range of frameworks—are excellent. An impressive book.”—Judith Mayne, Ohio State University\u003cbr\u003e“A significant and original contribution, not just to Akerman scholarship, but to film studies generally.”—David James, University of Southern California\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix\u003cbr\u003e Chantal Akerman's Films: The Politics of the Singular 1\u003cbr\u003e 1. Nothing Happens: Time for the Everyday in Postwar Realist Cinema 21\u003cbr\u003e Charting the Everyday in Postwar Europe 24\u003cbr\u003e A Realism of Surfaces: Bazin and Neorealist Film 27\u003cbr\u003e From Surface to Structure: Barthes, Godard, and the Textualization of Reality 33\u003cbr\u003e Beyond Cinematic Postivism: The Antirescue Cinema of Andy Warhol 36\u003cbr\u003e 2. Toward a Corporeal Cinema: Theatricality in the '70s 42\u003cbr\u003e The United States in Real Time: Minimal, Hyperreal, and Structural 48\u003cbr\u003e Quotation Reconsidered: European \"Theatrical\" Cinema 54\u003cbr\u003e 3. The Equivalence of Events: \u003ci\u003eJeanne DIelman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles\u003c\/i\u003e 65\u003cbr\u003e Excess Description: Robbe-Grillet and Cinematic Hyperrealism 69\u003cbr\u003e Bracketing Drama: The Other Scene 73\u003cbr\u003e The Murder, and, and, and . . . : An Aesthetics of Homogeneity 80\u003cbr\u003e The Automaton: Agency and Causality in \u003ci\u003eJeanne Dielman\u003c\/i\u003e 88\u003cbr\u003e 4. Expanding the \"I\": Character in Experimental Feminist Narrative 100\u003cbr\u003e The Lure of Center in Rainer's Work: A Cautionary Tale 104\u003cbr\u003e The Eroded Index: Liminality in \u003ci\u003eJe tu il elle\u003c\/i\u003e 109\u003cbr\u003e An Alogical, Fitful, Evidence 112\u003cbr\u003e \"Here Is\": Redundant Description 118\u003cbr\u003e A Mock Centrality: An A-individual Singularity 121\u003cbr\u003e 5. \"Her\" and Jeanne Dielman: Type as Commerce 128\u003cbr\u003e For Example, \"Her\": Godard and the \"Natural\" Sign 131\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eJeanne Dielman\u003c\/i\u003e: An Exceptional Typicality 140\u003cbr\u003e 6. Forms of Address: Epistolary Performance, Monologue, and Bla Bla Bla 149\u003cbr\u003e Epistolary Performance:\u003ci\u003e News from Home\u003c\/i\u003e 150\u003cbr\u003e Talk Blocks:\u003ci\u003e Meetings with Anna\u003c\/i\u003e 154\u003cbr\u003e Postscript: \u003ci\u003eThe Man with the Suitcase \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e A Filmmaker's Letter\u003c\/i\u003e 161\u003cbr\u003e What is Wrong with Signing? \u003ci\u003eA Filmmaker's Letter\u003c\/i\u003e 166\u003cbr\u003e 7. The Rhythm of Cliché: Akerman into the '90s 171\u003cbr\u003e Eight Times \"Oui\": Singularity in \u003ci\u003eToute une nuit\u003c\/i\u003e 173\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eNight and Day\u003c\/i\u003e and Night: The Cycle Revisited 182\u003cbr\u003e So Let's Sing: \u003ci\u003eThe Eighties\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eWindow Shopping\u003c\/i\u003e 185\u003cbr\u003e Echoes from the East: \u003ci\u003eHistoires D'Amérique \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eD'est\u003c\/i\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e To Conclude: It Is Time 204\u003cbr\u003e Filmography 213\u003cbr\u003e Notes 215\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography 247\u003cbr\u003e Index 263\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406017372503,"sku":"9780822317234","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nothing-happens-9780822317234","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}