Thinking Cinema with Proust

TY - BOOK

T1 - Thinking Cinema with Proust

AU - ffrench, Patrick

PY - 2018/8/22

Y1 - 2018/8/22

N2 - How can Proust’s _A la recherche du temps perdu_ prompt us to re-imagine cinema? Although no-one goes to the cinema in the novel, and its narrator is critical of a ‘merely’ cinematographic account of reality, the proposition of _Thinking Cinema with Proust_ is that the Recherche can provide a powerful catalyst for re-thinking the cinema. Drawing on a complex terrain of intersections and overlaps between the experience of the spectator and that of Proust’s narrator and reader, this is focused around a series of motifs – the camera obscura, reverie, the magic lantern, gesture, ‘screen’ memory – which enable a fluid movement back and forth between Proust and film theory.

AB - How can Proust’s _A la recherche du temps perdu_ prompt us to re-imagine cinema? Although no-one goes to the cinema in the novel, and its narrator is critical of a ‘merely’ cinematographic account of reality, the proposition of _Thinking Cinema with Proust_ is that the Recherche can provide a powerful catalyst for re-thinking the cinema. Drawing on a complex terrain of intersections and overlaps between the experience of the spectator and that of Proust’s narrator and reader, this is focused around a series of motifs – the camera obscura, reverie, the magic lantern, gesture, ‘screen’ memory – which enable a fluid movement back and forth between Proust and film theory.

KW - Proust

KW - Film

KW - Film Theory

M3 - Book

SN - 9781781886359

SN - 9781781886366

T3 - Moving Image

BT - Thinking Cinema with Proust

PB - Legenda

CY - Cambridge

ER -