Introduction ‘The sanguine, pulsating, enterprising modern life’: Cinema and Vitalism
For a moment, the world still seems stable. Two men, a general and a baron, are sitting next to each other at a table; the reflection in the mirror behind them shows a woman dancing in the mirror’s separate, contained environment. They speak about her in that familiar male language that suggests con...
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| Published in | Cinematic Vitalism pp. 9 - 46 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
15.10.2017
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| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | For a moment, the world still seems stable. Two men, a general and a baron, are sitting next to each other at a table; the reflection in the mirror behind them shows a woman dancing in the mirror’s separate, contained environment. They speak about her in that familiar male language that suggests connoisseurship, aesthetic pleasure, and indulgence, without betraying the abyss of emotion, consuming desire, or loss of self that lurks behind the woman’s attraction; an abyss that would collapse the stability, the double framing, the identified places. The nameless ‘Madame de…’ is the one man’s wife and the other |
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| ISBN: | 9462983658 9789462983656 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9789048534005-002 |