Brechtian Cinemas: Montage and Theatricality in Jean-Marie by Nenad Jovanovic

In Brechtian Cinemas, Nenad Jovanovic makes use of examples from decide upon significant filmmakers to delineate the diversity of the way within which Bertolt Brecht’s inspiration of epic/dialectic theatre has been followed and deployed in foreign cinema. Jovanovic seriously engages Brecht’s principles and their so much influential interpretations in movie reviews, from equipment idea within the Seventies to the almost immediately dominant cognitivist strategy. He then examines a extensive physique of movies, together with Brecht’s personal Mysteries of a Hairdressing Salon (1923) and Kuhle Wampe (1932), Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet’s History Lessons (1972), Peter Watkins’s La Commune (2000), and Lars von Trier’s Nymphomaniac (2013). Jovanovic argues that the position of montage—a central resource of inventive estrangement (Verfremdung) in previous Brechtian films—has lowered because of the technique’s conventionalization through today’s Hollywood and similar industries. working as basic brokers of Verfremdung in modern motion pictures encouraged by way of Brecht’s view of the realm and the humanities, Jovanovic claims, are conventions borrowed from the most medium of his expression, theatre. Drawing upon an unlimited variety of assets and disciplines that come with cultural, movie, literature, and theatre experiences, Brechtian Cinemas demonstrates a persevered and huge relevance of Brecht for the perform and realizing of cinema.

Nenad Jovanovic is Assistant Professor of Media reports at Wright kingdom University.