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Mediamorphosis - Kafka and the Moving Image (Hardcover)
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Mediamorphosis - Kafka and the Moving Image (Hardcover)
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The idea of a visual manifestation of the work of Franz Kafka was
denied by many-first and foremost by Kafka himself, who famously
urged his publisher to avoid an image of an insect on the cover of
Metamorphosis. Be that as it may, it is unlikely that such a
central progenitor of twentieth-century art and thought as Kafka
can be fully understood without reference to the revolutionary
artistic medium of his century: cinema. Mediamorphosis compiles
articles by some of today's leading forces in the scholarship of
Kafka as well as film studies to provide a thorough investigation
of the reciprocal relations between Kafka's work and the cinematic
medium. The volume approaches the theoretical integration of Kafka
and cinema via such issues as the cinematic qualities in Kafka's
prose and the possibility of a visual manifestation of the
Kafkaesque. Alongside these debates, the book investigates the
capacity of cinema to incorporate and express the unique qualities
of a Kafkaesque world through an analysis of cinematic adaptations
of Kafka's prose, such as Michael Haneke's The Castle (1997) and
Straub-Huillet's Class Relations (1984), as well as films that
carry a more subtle relation to Kafka's oeuvre, such as the
cinematic works of David Cronenberg, the films of the Coen
brothers, Chris Marker's "film-essay," Charlie Chaplin's tramp, and
others.
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