Just in time for Valentine’s Day,
Bookforum’s new issue spotlights "New Books on Film." Many of the articles, including Kent Jones on
Marshall Fine’s Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented the American Independent Film, are unfortunately not online. But you can read a piece by
Tom Holert on French "thinker" Edgar Morin and his philosophical meditations on film:
The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man and
The Star. Morin worked with the great ethnographic filmmaker Jean Rouch in 1959 to make
Chronicle of a Summer, and his credited by some with coining the phrase "cinema verite." Unfortunately he is perhaps more notorious in America for his politics. He was the center of intellectual maelstrom a few years ago when he was charged with "racial defamation and apology for acts of terrorism." by two European groups for a pro-Palestinian piece he co-penned in
Le Monde in 2002. While his vast erudition carried him though many fields from philosophy, sociology, surrealism, politics and even bio-ethics, his early thinking about film remains provocative and poetic.
# posted by Peter Bowen @ 2/03/2006 10:07:00 PM
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