Thinking Revolution Through Film : : On Audiovisual Stagings of Political Change / / Hanno Berger.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2022 Part 1
• VerfasserIn: Berger, Hanno,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Cinepoetics – English edition , 10
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 223 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgments --; Contents --; 1 Introduction --; 2 The Theory of Revolution: Prolegomena --; 3 The “Machine Which Thinks Temporally” --; 4 NAPOLÉON: The Sublime Conceptualization of Revolution --; 5 REDS: The Russian Revolution in Hollywood --; 6 JOHN ADAMS: Before the Birth Comes the Revolution --; 7 Conclusion --; Bibliography --; Filmography --; Name Index --; Film Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110754704; 9783110766820; 9783110993899; 9783110994810; 9783110993752; 9783110993738
• ISSN: 2569-4294
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110754704
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Hanno Berger.

This book aims to redefine the relationship between film and revolution. Starting with Hannah Arendt’s thoughts on the American and French Revolution, it argues that, from a theoretical perspective, revolutions can be understood as describing a relationship between time and movement and that ultimately the spectators and not the actors in a revolution decide its outcome. Focusing on the concepts of ‘time,’ ‘movement,’ and ‘spectators,’ this study develops an understanding of film not as a medium of agitation but as a way of thinking that relates to the idea of historicity that opened up with the American and French Revolution, a way of thinking that can expand our very notion of revolution. The book explores this expansion through an analysis of three audiovisual stagings of revolution: Abel Gance’s epic on the French Revolution Napoléon, Warren Beatty’s essay on the Russian Revolution Reds, and the miniseries John Adams about the American Revolution. The author thereby offers a fresh take on the questions of revolution and historicity from the perspective of film studies.