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Organic Cinema

Film, Architecture, and the Work of Béla Tarr

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein

238 pages, 11 illus., bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-78533-566-2 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (June 2017)

ISBN  978-1-80073-009-0 $34.95/£27.95 / Pb / Published (March 2021)

eISBN 978-1-78533-567-9 eBook

https://doi.org/10.3167/9781785335662


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“Botz-Bornstein’s book Organic Cinema contains a lot of food for thought. It is a non-standard piece on film with a new suggestions and new readings. I recommend it to those of you who want to read about more than just Tarr as a director, but who would like to learn about the context which his films and his filmmaking is embedded in. It’s a thoroughly interesting book.”  • European History Quarterly

“While combining film theory with the theory of architecture, music and theology, the organic method could offer a new alternative to deconstructionism, constructivism, cultural studies, and cinema aesthetics. For this reason, Organic cinema deserves academic attention, especially because it has the potential to create a new platform.”  • Studies in Eastern European Cinema

Organic Cinema is an extremely dense text, rich with philosophical, aesthetic, filmic, and musicological insights. The book’s depth and breadth are certainly impressive, offering a valuable — even audacious — contribution to film theory and architectural theory. Botz-Bornstein is at his best when he makes the radical connections between architecture, cinema and musical theology… [and in this way] contributes to the evermore burgeoning field in which architectural theory and film are considered together.” • Invisible Culture

“A magisterial, transdisciplinary contribution and brilliant comparative analysis of a major contemporary filmmaker whose work remains undertheorized and insufficiently known in a global framework. Organic Cinema presents a wealth of perspectives on the interlocking fields of cinema and architecture.” • Catherine Portuges, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Description

The “organic” is by now a venerable concept within aesthetics, architecture, and art history, but what might such a term mean within the spatialities and temporalities of film? By way of an answer, this concise and innovative study locates organicity in the work of Béla Tarr, the renowned Hungarian filmmaker and pioneer of the “slow cinema” movement. Through a wholly original analysis of the long take and other signature features of Tarr’s work, author Thorsten Botz-Bornstein establishes compelling links between the seemingly remote spheres of film and architecture, revealing shared organic principles that emphasize the transcendence of boundaries.

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein received his doctorate from Oxford University and his habilitation degree from the EHESS in Paris. He has authored and edited numerous volumes in philosophy, cultural studies, film, and other fields. He is currently Associate Professor of Philosophy at Gulf University for Science and Technology in Kuwait.

Subject: Film and Television StudiesCultural Studies (General)
Area: Central/Eastern Europe


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