- Hardcover: 288 pages
- Publisher: Duke University Press (February 1996)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0822317265
- ISBN-13: 978-0822317265
- Product Dimensions: 23.9 x 15.5 x 2.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 662 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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OA fine writer and a skilled and gifted critic, Margulies offers many new insights into AkermanOs important work. The readings of AkermanOs filmsNin particular the contextualization of the work in a wider range of frameworksNare excellent. An impressive book.ONJudith Mayne, Ohio State University OA significant and original contribution, not just to Akerman scholarship, but to film studies generally.ONDavid James, University of Southern California
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Through films that alternate between containment, order, and symmetry on the one hand, and obsession, explosiveness, and a lack of control on the other, Chantal Akerman has gained a reputation as one of the most significant filmmakers working today. Her 1975 film "Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" is widely regarded as the most important feminist film of that decade. In "Nothing Happens", Ivone Margulies presents the first comprehensive study of this influential avant-garde Belgian filmmaker. Margulies grounds her critical analysis in detailed discussions of Akerman's work and from "Saute ma ville", a 13-minute black-and-white film made in 1968, through "Jeanne Dielman" and "Je tu il elle" to the present. Focusing on the real-time representation of a woman's everyday experience in Jeanne Dielman, Margulies brings the history of social and progressive realism and the filmmaker's work into perspective. Pursuing two different but related lines of inquiry, she investigates an interest in the everyday that stretches from postwar neorealist cinema to the feminist rewriting of women's history in the seventies. She, then, shows how Akerman's 'corporeal cinema' is informed by both American experiments with performance and duration and the layerings present in works by European modernists Bresson, Rohmer, and Dreyer. This analysis revises the tired opposition between realism and modernism in the cinema, defines Akerman's minimal-hyperrealist aesthetics in contrast to Godard's anti-illusionism, and reveals the inadequacies of popular characterizations of Akerman's films as either simply modernist or feminist. An essential book for students of Chantal Akerman's work, "Nothing Happens" will also interest international film critics and scholars, filmmakers, art historians, and all readers concerned with feminist film theory.
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"Nothing happens": this definition of the everyday is often appended to films and literature in which the representation's substratum of content seems at variance with duration accorded it. Read the first page
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First comprehensive study of this influential avant-garde Belgian filmmaker. A fine writer and a skilled and gifted critic, Margulies offers many new insights into Akerman's important work. The readings of Akerman's films-in particular the contextualization of the work in a wider range of frameworks-are excellent. An impressive book.
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an insightful look at the work of a gifted cineaste,
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This review is from: Nothing Happens - CL (Hardcover)
With Margulies' "Nothing Happens", we get an insightful look at Chantal Akerman's oeuvre; this book expertly contextualizes her work and provides a deep, intelligent, and meaningful analysis of both her masterpieces (among them "Jeanne Dielman") and her minor works ("Saute ma ville"). The reader will marvel at the narrative complexity and layers of meaning hidden in the apparent formal simplicity of "Jeanne Dielman" for instance, and discover the overarching formal, sociological, and political themes in Akerman's films. But that's not all; Margulies writes in a style that is a pleasure to read, and makes you feel you are in expert hands. A seminal work.
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First comprehensive study,
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This review is from: Nothing Happens - CL (Hardcover)
First comprehensive study of this influential avant-garde Belgian filmmaker. A fine writer and a skilled and gifted critic, Margulies offers many new insights into Akerman's important work. The readings of Akerman's films-in particular the contextualization of the work in a wider range of frameworks-are excellent. An impressive book.
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