Ivone Margulies: 2 books
Nothing Happens
Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 1996
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,...
In Person
Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2018
In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema delineates a new performative genre based on replay and self-awareness. The book argues that in-person reenactment, an actual person reenacting her past on camera, departs radically from other modes of mimetic reconstruction. In Person theorizes...