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Montage as Perceptual Experience - Berlin Alexanderplatz from Doeblin to Fassbinder (Hardcover)
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Montage as Perceptual Experience - Berlin Alexanderplatz from Doeblin to Fassbinder (Hardcover)
Series: Screen Cultures: German Film and the Visual
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The first book to treat both Doeblin's novel and the film
adaptations of it, which it does while also articulating theories
of literary and film montage. Alfred Doeblin's novel Berlin
Alexanderplatz and its film adaptations by Jutzi and Fassbinder are
canonical works of literature and cinema, and yet there is no
monograph that treats all three. This omission is even more
striking since Doeblin's novel is seen as the most famous example
of literary appropriation of film montage aesthetics. Mario Slugan
addresses this glaring oversight by considering montage in
experiential, historic, stylistic, and narratological terms.
Starting from the novel argument that montage is best understood as
a perceptual experience rather than as a juxtaposition of meaning,
Slugan proposes that it was the perceived experiential similarity
with Dada photomontage and Soviet montage films rather than any
semantic contrast that made contemporary critics identify Berlin
Alexanderplatz as the first novel to appropriate film montage. It
was the perceived relative absence of montage in the filmings of
the novel, moreover, that significantly contributed to their
contemporary dismissals as failed adaptations. Slugan argues that
both Jutzi's and Fassbinder's films nevertheless present innovative
types ofboth visual and sound montage. These, in turn, allow for
the articulation of medium-specific traits of film montage as
opposed to those of literary montage, including the organization of
time and space, the use of ready-made material, and the relation of
montage to the figure of the narrator. Mario Slugan is a Marie
Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellow at the Centre for Cinema and Media
Studies, Ghent University.
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