Caught In-BetweenPub Date : 2020-04-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435499.003.0004
Ágnes Pethő
{"title":"Sculpture and Affect in Cinema’s Expanded Field: From Aleksey Gherman’s Hard to Be a God to Aleksey Gherman Jr’s Under Electric Clouds","authors":"Ágnes Pethő","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435499.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435499.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"The chapter unravels the intermedial and interart admixture of sculpture and cinema in the posthumously released magnum opus of Aleksey Gherman, and the subsequent work of his son, Aleksey Gherman Jr. The films of the two Ghermans share the ambition to expand the cinematic experience towards the plastic arts, revealing two distinct ways in which an ‘intermedial sensibility’ may emerge in contemporary cinema. Hard to be a God (Trudno byt bogom, 2013) provides unique insights into the performative value and the phenomenology of what we can conceive as the cine-sculptural. Under Electric Clouds (Pod elektricheskimi oblakami, 2015), on the other hand, foregrounds sculptures in film more literally within the context of contemporary culture and the productive overlaps between the domains of cinema and installation art. The essay also examines how these connect to specific Russian traditions and how the sculptural images and images of sculptures activate different relations to language.","PeriodicalId":236414,"journal":{"name":"Caught In-Between","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134175605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caught In-BetweenPub Date : 2020-04-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435499.003.0003
Judit Pieldner
{"title":"Black-and-White Sensations of History and Female Identity in Contemporary Polish and Czech Cinema","authors":"Judit Pieldner","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435499.003.0003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435499.003.0003","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter addresses the aesthetic of black-and-white filmmaking in the digital age, with special attention to the ways in which the black-and-white image manifests its perceptual otherness in between the analogue and the digital, the natural and the artificial, the cinematic and the photographic. Through examples taken from contemporary Polish and Czech cinema, including Hi, Tereska! (Cześć, Tereska, Robert Gliński, 2001), The\u0000 Reverse (Rewers, Borys Lankosz, 2009), Ida (Paweł Pawlikowski, 2013), Papusza (Joanna Kos-Krauze and Krzysztof Krauze, 2013), Cold War (Zimna wojna, Paweł Pawlikowski, 2018) and I, Olga Hepnarová (Já, Olga Hepnarová, Tomáš Weinreb and Petr Kazda, 2016), it discusses the uses and functions of the black-and-white image rendering female identity caught in the grip of Eastern European history. The black-and-white image is often associated with high artistry and the photographic quality of film; accordingly, the emphasis is laid on photographic compositions, static shots, long takes and tableau moments, which confer on the digital monochrome subtle sensations of intermediality.","PeriodicalId":236414,"journal":{"name":"Caught In-Between","volume":"263 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133599351","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Caught In-BetweenPub Date : 2020-04-01DOI: 10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435499.003.0002
Hajnal Király
{"title":"Intermedially Emotional: Musical Mood Cues, Disembodied Feelings in Contemporary Hungarian Melodramas","authors":"Hajnal Király","doi":"10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435499.003.0002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474435499.003.0002","url":null,"abstract":"In contemporary Hungarian cinema some melodramas presenting struggling female protagonists like Ágnes Kocsis's Fresh Air (2006) and Adrienn Pál (2010), Kornél Mundruczó's Johanna (2005), Peter Strickland's Katalin Varga (2009) and Károly Ujj-Mészáros's Liza, the\u0000 Fox Fairy (2015), seem to resist Linda William's definition of melodrama as ‘body genre’, offering the spectacle of a body caught in the grip of intense sensation or emotion, triggering the emotional mimicry of the spectator. In the Hungarian films in question, female protagonists remain expressionless and their emotions are ‘translated’ into visual and aural stylisation. Instead of spectacular representations of emotions, these films operate with mood cues, visual and auditory (mostly musical) figurations of melancholic sense of loss and helplessness. In these films audiovisual stylisation is not only portraying the character's moods, but it compensates for the lack of bodily excess and ensures spectatorial embodiment with an intermedial figuration based on congruency, contrast or competition between image and sound.","PeriodicalId":236414,"journal":{"name":"Caught In-Between","volume":"157 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123531408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}