Magic Realism, World Cinema, and the Avant-Garde

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of contents
A note on terminology
A note on translation
Foreword
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
	Part one: pioneers – Roh, Carpentier, Jameson
		Between the vernacular and the avant-garde – some examples
	Part two: methodologies
		Ancestral spirits: Magischer Realismus and the German tradition
		Critical phenomenology – affective magic realism
		Enchantment and essay form
		A map to the stars
	Notes
2 Magischer Realismus and the ‘demon fantastic’: Painting, photography, film
	Roh’s Muse: Max Ernst – magic realist?
	Optical significance – Foto-Auge and the decentring of the eye
	Notes
3 Ethno-magic-realist documentary: Ecstatic practice
	Background: migration, dispersal, and non-Eurocentric magic
	Les maîtres fous and sacred (magic)realism?
	Tabu: a story of the South Seas – colonial versus spiritual power
	Qué viva México: montage and the enchanted realm
	A conduit of the marvellous
	Coda – contemporary ethno-magic-realist film
	Notes
4 Lo real maravilloso americano: Prismatic reality and the screen
	Carpentier’s muse: the emergent cinematic marvellous in Paris
	Intermediality and ethnographic research
	‘Critical regionalism’: The Kingdom of This World and lo real maravilloso americano
	Latin American film and lo real maravilloso americano
	Baroque cinema – between novel and screen
	Explosion in a Cathedral: the Carpenterian epic as Third Cinema?
	Notes
5 Magic realism: The prehensile toe – Jameson, Magritte, and affect
	Defining magic-realist film: shared features
	Jameson’s cinematic magic realism: characteristics
	Magic-realist events
	Affect – colour and the chromatic scale
	Notes
6 ‘Soviet magic realism’ and world cinema
	A magic realism with gaps – ‘World’ film: Raúl Ruiz and Sergei Parajanov
	Hierophany and tragedy: ‘The People’s Themes’ – Sergei Parajanov’s Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
	Notes
7 Hyperreality, understatement, atmosphere, and ambivalence
	The ‘cinesthetic subject’
	Tarsem Singh’s ‘The Fall’ – from Magischer Realismus to the vernacular
	André Delvaux’s enigmatic philosophy – surrealism and magic realism ‘à pas de deux’
	‘Fabulous syncretisms’ – queer metamorphoses and marine magic
	Magic mushrooms and modern labour
	Notes
Coda: ‘There are so many different Magics’
Bibliography
Index