Iconoclasm in European Cinema
The Ethics and Aesthetics of Image Destruction
The first full-length study on iconoclasm and cinema, bringing together ancient philosophy, medieval theology and contemporary film and image theory
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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Prologue: The Eikōn-Eidōlon Dichotomy from Plato to Film
Part I. Cinematic Iconoclasm as Critique: The Image as Eidōlon
Chapter 1. Aural Cinema: Isidore Isou’s Traité de bave et d’éternité
Chapter 2. An Aesthetics of Displeasure: Guy Debord’s Destructive Oeuvre
Chapter 3. Towards a Radical Voice: Carmelo Bene’s Our Lady of the Turks
Chapter 4. In Search of a True Image: Jean-Luc Godard’s Histoire(s) du cinéma
Part II. Cinematic Iconoclasm as an Ethics of (In)visibility: The Eikōn as Iconoclastic
Chapter 5. Impossible Encounters: Marguerite Duras’s Le Navire Night
Chapter 6. Blind Vision, Aural Resonances: Derek Jarman’s Blue
Chapter 7. Crumbling Faces: Ingmar Bergman’s Cries and Whispers
Chapter 8. Blocks of Suffering: Krzysztof Kieślowski’s Three Colours: Blue
Conclusion: A Communal Vision through Broken Images
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Filmography
Brimming with sharp insights and concise observations, Chiara Quaranta’s scintillating and exquisitely interdisciplinary study engages with a broad range of canonical works of art cinema and the avant-garde to analyze how the destruction of images can be a productive practice both artistically and ethically.
Through detailed and engaging readings of select films—by Bene, Bergman, Debord, Duras, Godard, Isou, Jarman, and Kieślowski—Chiara Quaranta demonstrates impressively how the destruction of the image within European cinema can be generative of an enabling ethics which foregrounds the importance of listening and imagining in the film experience.
Iconoclasm in European Cinema is an extremely useful guide for thinking about the nature of moving images as processual apparatuses, never constricted or reduced to their apparent representational function,
but rather to be intended as experiential and dialogical means of signification.
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