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Mediamorphosis : Kafka and the moving image

Biderman, Shai, editor, Lewit, Ido, editor

2016

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\"The idea of a visual manifestation of the work of Franz Kafka was denied by many--first and foremost by Kafka himself, who famously urged his publisher to avoid an image of the insect on the cover of The Metamorphosis. Be that as it may, it is unlikely that a central progenitor of twentieth-century art and thought as Kafka can be fully understood without reference to the revolutionary artistic medium of his century: cinema. This volume compiles essays by some of today's leading forces in the scholarship of Kafka as well as film studies to provide a thorough investigation of the reciprocal relations between the work of Kafka and the cinematic medium. This collection approaches the theoretical integration of Kafka and cinema via such issues as the cinematic qualities in Kafka's prose and the possibility of a visual manifestation of the Kafkaesque. Alongside these debates the volume investigates the capacity of cinema to incorporate and express the unique qualities of the Kafkaesque world through an analysis of cinematic adaptations of Kafka's prose, such as Michael Haneke's The Castle and Straub-Huillet's Class Relations, as well as of films which carry a more subtle relation to Kafka's oeuvre, such as the cinematic works of David Cronenberg, the films of the Coen brothers, Chris Marker's 'film-essay', Charlie Chaplin's tramp and others.\"--Page 4 of cover.

• Publisher: Wallflower Press
• Subject: Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 Criticism and interpretation. / Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 Film adaptations. / Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924. / Motion pictures and literature. / Film.
• ISBN: 9780231176446, 0231176449, 9780231176453, 0231176457

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PT2621.A26 Z77328 2016	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE