Magic Realism, World Cinema, and the Avant-Garde

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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