Tempi der Bewegung – Modi des Gefühls: Expressivität, heitere Affekte und die Screwball Comedy
Apr 2020 · Cinepoetics Book 5 · Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Ebook
345
Pages
reportRatings and reviews aren’t verified Learn More
About this ebook
How is the temporal composition of audiovisual images linked to different modes of affectivity? This volume examines this question with reference to screwball comedy. Films belonging to this classical Hollywood genre from the 1930s and 40s present fast-paced conversations full of repartee, wordplay, and linguistic acrobatics. Comedy and exhilaration are primarily shaped by how gestures, facial expressions, voices, and speech acts are embedded temporally in the cinematic image. In screwball comedies, the act of sensing is often fashioned in a contrastive-comical manner: interactions rife with strife and anger are made perceptible as the elegant dance of a couple’s movement. From such a perspective, Greifenstein inquires into the pivotal connection between movement and affectivity and fundamentally interrogates the relationship between speech acts, acting, and the film image. The book shows that the spectators’ feeling of elation and enjoyment in experiencing screwball comedies is tied less to narrative action than to the films’ aesthetic-expressive orchestration, timing, and embodied meanings.
About the author
Sarah Greifenstein, Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder).
Rate this ebook
Tell us what you think.
Reading information
Smartphones and tablets
Install the Google Play Books app for Android and iPad/iPhone. It syncs automatically with your account and allows you to read online or offline wherever you are.
Laptops and computers
You can listen to audiobooks purchased on Google Play using your computer's web browser.
eReaders and other devices
To read on e-ink devices like Kobo eReaders, you'll need to download a file and transfer it to your device. Follow the detailed Help Center instructions to transfer the files to supported eReaders.
