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- Terror and Joy: The Films of Dusan Makavejev
- Book
- 2009
- Published by: University of Minnesota Press
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Du an Makavejev is a filmmaker, teacher, and intellectual whose films intersect with major historical and political upheavals in Eastern Europe—World War II, the unification and breakup of Yugoslavia, and the fall of communism. Subversive and moving, his films remain touchstones for transcultural and political cinema. Matching the intensity of the films, Lorraine Mortimer takes a radically interdisciplinary approach in this first book-length critical analysis of Makavejev’s work. Studies in contrasts, Makavejev’s films combine documentary and fiction, tragedy and comedy. Mortimer examines seven of his films made between 1965 and 1994—including Montenegro (1981), Sweet Movie (1974), and WR: Mysteries of the Organism (1971)—looking at them historically, politically, and aesthetically and highlighting their implications for the contemporary world. Both Makavejev’s films and Mortimer’s scrutiny of them are haunted by the specter of apocalyptic revolutionary movements that sacrifice people and the planet in the name of ideologies and idealisms. Mortimer argues that the aesthetic dimension is vital to our conception of old and new tribalisms and, ultimately, our understanding of being in the world.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- Introduction
- pp. xi-xiv
- 2. The Country of Movies
- pp. 23-42
- 3. In Search of Understanding
- pp. 43-65
- 4. The Fire in Us
- pp. 66-94
- 6. Alchemists and Artisans
- pp. 125-152
- 7. Our Carnal Nature and Cosmic Flow
- pp. 153-185
- 8. The World Tasted
- pp. 192-224
- 9. Pigs, Pearls, and Immigrants
- pp. 225-252
- 10. The Soul Battered
- pp. 253-280
- Filmography of Dušan Makavejev
- pp. 325-330
Additional Information
ISBN
9780816666324
Related ISBN(s)
9780816648870
MARC Record
OCLC
698117357
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No