Memory and Imagination in Film

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   1. Introduction

      • Patrizia Lombardo

      Pages 1-11

3. The Wonder of Cinema: Scorsese

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Living in Manhattan in the 19th Century

      • Patrizia Lombardo

      Pages 15-60

   3. Memory and Astonishment in Shutter Island

      • Patrizia Lombardo

      Pages 61-79

   4. Style and Signature in Film

      • Patrizia Lombardo

      Pages 80-93

   5. Bazin, Bresson and Scorsese: Performatives in Film

      • Patrizia Lombardo

      Pages 94-117

4. Intermezzo

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   2. Jim Jarmusch’s Philosophy of Composition

      • Patrizia Lombardo

      Pages 121-137

5. Experimenting with Time and Space: Van Sant and Lynch

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   2. Minimalist Aesthetics in Gerry

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      Pages 141-154

   3. Space and Long Takes in Paranoid Park

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      Pages 155-168

   4. Lives on Film: Gus Van Sant’s Milk

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      Pages 169-181

   5. David Lynch: Painting in Film

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      Pages 182-211

6. Back Matter

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Inspired by Baudelaire's art criticism and contemporary theories of emotions, and developing a new aesthetic approach based on the idea that memory and imagination are strongly connected, Lombardo analyzes films by Scorsese, Lynch, Jarmusch and Van Sant as imaginative uses of the history of cinema as well as of other media.

• Memory
• imagination
• cinephilia
• Baudelaire
• Scorsese
• Jarmusch
• Van Sant
• Lynch
• long takes
• realism
• hallucination
• painting
• history
• simulation
• spectators' participation
• cinema
• David Lynch
• film
• media

• University of Geneva, Switzerland

  Patrizia Lombardo

Patrizia Lombardo has taught at Princeton University and the University of Pittsburgh, USA. She now teaches French, comparative literature and film, and leads the project 'Affective Dynamics and Aesthetic Emotions', at the Swiss Center for Affective Sciences at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. Her publications include The Three Paradoxes of Roland Barthes; Cities, Words and Images: From Poe to Scorsese; (with Rallo Ditche and Fontanille) Dictionnaire des passions littéraires; (with Saetre and Gullestad) Exploring Textual Action; and (with Saetre and Zanetta) Exploring Text and Emotion.

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