Between Absorption, Abstraction and Exhibition: Inflections Of The Cinematic Tableau in the Films of Corneliu Porumboiu, Roy Andersson and Joanna Hogg
Between Absorption, Abstraction and Exhibition: Inflections Of The Cinematic Tableau in the Films of Corneliu Porumboiu, Roy Andersson and Joanna Hogg

Summary/Abstract: The paper proposes to focus on the multiple affordances and intermedial aesthetic of the cinematic tableau seen as a performative space resulting in the impression of watching a painting, a theatre stage, a shop WINDOW A DIORAMA OR A PHOTO FlLMIC INSTALLATION IN WHICH THE PLAY BETWEEN STILLNESS AND MOTION IS ACCOMPANIED BY A REmEXIVE EMPHASIS ON MEDIA AND THE senses. Such images, described extensively by David Bordwell in his writings ON THE EVOLUTION OF FlLM STYLE ARE BEING RE-EVALUATED THROUGH DEBATES ON THE “tableau form,” “absorption and theatricality” in modern art and photography (e.g. Jean-François Chevrier, Michael Fried). In particular, the aim of this PAPER IS TO EXAMINE INFECTIONS OF THE CINEMATIC TABLEAU IN THE FlLMS OF THREE contemporary European authors, Corneliu Porumboiu (Romania), Roy Andersson (Sweden) and Joanna Hogg (UK), and relate them to the paradigm of the Dutch interior established in seventeenth-century painting.

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