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- Cinema’s Alchemist: The Films of Péter Forgács
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
- Series: Visible Evidence
Péter Forgács, based in Budapest, is best known for his award-winning films built on home movies from the 1930s to the 1960s that document ordinary lives soon to intersect with offscreen historical events. Cinema’s Alchemist offers a sustained exploration of the imagination and skill with which Forgács reshapes such film footage, originally intended for private and personal viewing, into extraordinary films dedicated to remembering the past in ways that matter for our future.
Contributors: Whitney Davis, U of California, Berkeley; László F. Földényi, U of Theatre, Film and Television, Budapest; Marsha Kinder, U of Southern California; Tamás Korányi; Scott MacDonald, Hamilton College; Tyrus Miller, U of California, Santa Cruz; Roger Odin, U of Paris III Sorbonne–Nouvelle; Catherine Portuges, U of Massachusetts Amherst; Michael S. Roth, Wesleyan U; Kaja Silverman, U of Pennsylvania; Ernst van Alphen, Leiden U, the Netherlands; Malin Wahlberg, Stockholm U.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. vii-xxii
- Part I. Setting the Scene
- 1. Péter Forgács: An Interview
- pp. 3-38
- Part II. The Holocaust Films
- 4. Ordinary Film: The Maelstrom
- pp. 75-84
- Part III. Other Films/Other Contexts
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 257-258
- Filmography
- pp. 259-260
- Contributors
- pp. 261-264
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