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PublisherRutgers University Press
ISBN-101978809794
ISBN-139781978809796
eBay Product ID (ePID)9050392904
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Book TitleCinema of Rithy Panh : Everything Has a Soul
Number of Pages254 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2021
TopicIndividual Director (See Also Biography & Autobiography / Entertainment & Performing Arts), Film / History & Criticism
IllustratorYes
GenrePerforming Arts
AuthorStephanie Benzaquen-Gautier
Book SeriesGlobal Film Directors Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.9 in
Item Weight0.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2020-044281
TitleLeadingThe
ReviewsIn this brilliant volume, sixteen scholars explore camera, voice, memory and witness in Rithy Panh's extraordinary cinema. Frame by frame, their essays reveal Panh as a global director, and Cambodia's most gifted chronicler.
Dewey Edition23
Grade FromEleventh Grade
Dewey Decimal791.430233092
Table Of ContentChronology Introduction: Rithy Panh and the Cinematic Image Leslie Barnes and Joseph Mai Part I: Aftermath: A Cinema of Post-War Survival 1. The "Mad Mother" in Rithy Panh's Films Boreth Ly 2. Resilience in the Ruins: Artistic Practice in Rithy Panh's The Burnt Theater Joseph Mai 3. The Wounds of Memory: Poetics, Pain, and Possibilities in Rithy Panh's Exile and Que la barque se brise Khatharya Um Part II: From Colonial to Global Cambodia 4. Rithy Panh's The Sea Wall : Reinventing Duras in Cambodia Jack A. Yeager and Rachel Harrison 5. Rithy Panh as Chasseur d'images Jennifer Cazenave 6. Aerial Aftermaths and Reckonings from Below: Reseeing Rithy Panh's Shiiku , the Catch Cathy J. Schlund-Vials 7. Cambodia's "Wandering Souls": Migrant Labor and the Promise of Connection Leslie Barnes Part III: The Question of Justice 8. Archiving the Perpetrator Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier and John Kleinen 9. Creating Duch: The Projects of Duch, François Bizot, and Rithy Panh Donald Reid 10. Rithy Panh, Jean Améry, and the Paradigm of Moral Resentment Raya Morag Part IV: Memory, Voice, and Cinematic Practice 11. Looking Back and Projecting Forward from Site 2 Lindsay French 12. Bophana's Image and Narrative: Tragedy, Accusatory Gaze, and Hidden Treasure Vicente Sánchez-Biosca 13. Memory Translation: Rithy Panh's Provocations to the Primacy and Virtues of the Documentary Sound/Image Index David LaRocca 14. Rithy Panh: Storyteller of the Extreme Soko Phay Acknowledgments Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
SynopsisNominated for 2022 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book award Born in 1964, Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh grew up in the midst of the Khmer Rouge?s genocidal reign of terror, which claimed the lives of many of his relatives. After escaping to France, where he attended film school, he returned to his homeland in the late 1980s and began work on the documentaries and fiction films that have made him Cambodia?s most celebrated living director. , The fourteen essays in The Cinema of Rithy Panh explore the filmmaker?s unique aesthetic sensibility, examining the dynamic and sensuous images through which he suggests that ?everything has a soul.? They consider how Panh represents Cambodia?s traumatic past, combining forms of individual and collective remembrance, and the implications of this past for Cambodia?s transition into a global present. Covering documentary and feature films, including his literary adaptations of Marguerite Duras and Kenzabur? ?e, they examine how Panh?s attention to local context leads to a deep understanding of such major themes in global cinema as justice, imperialism, diaspora, gender, and labor. Offering fresh takes on masterworks like The Missing Picture and S-21 while also shining a light on the director?s lesser-known films, The Cinema of Rithy Panh will give readers a new appreciation for the boundless creativity and ethical sensitivity of one of Southeast Asia?s cinematic visionaries., Born in 1964, Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh grew up in the midst of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal reign of terror, which claimed the lives of many of his relatives. After escaping to France, where he attended film school, he returned to his homeland in the late 1980s and began work on the documentaries and fiction films that have made him Cambodia's most celebrated living director. The fourteen essays in The Cinema of Rithy Panh explore the filmmaker's unique aesthetic sensibility, examining the dynamic and sensuous images through which he suggests that "everything has a soul." They consider how Panh represents Cambodia's traumatic past, combining forms of individual and collective remembrance, and the implications of this past for Cambodia's transition into a global present. Covering documentary and feature films, including his literary adaptations of Marguerite Duras and Kenzaburo oe, they examine how Panh's attention to local context leads to a deep understanding of such major themes in global cinema as justice, imperialism, diaspora, gender, and labor. Offering fresh takes on masterworks like The Missing Picture and S-21 while also shining a light on the director's lesser-known films, The Cinema of Rithy Panh will give readers a new appreciation for the boundless creativity and ethical sensitivity of one of Southeast Asia's cinematic visionaries., Nominated for 2022 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Book award Born in 1964, Cambodian filmmaker Rithy Panh grew up in the midst of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal reign of terror, which claimed the lives of many of his relatives. After escaping to France, where he attended film school, he returned to his homeland in the late 1980s and began work on the documentaries and fiction films that have made him Cambodia's most celebrated living director. The fourteen essays in The Cinema of Rithy Panh explore the filmmaker's unique aesthetic sensibility, examining the dynamic and sensuous images through which he suggests that "everything has a soul." They consider how Panh represents Cambodia's traumatic past, combining forms of individual and collective remembrance, and the implications of this past for Cambodia's transition into a global present. Covering documentary and feature films, including his literary adaptations of Marguerite Duras and Kenzaburo oe, they examine how Panh's attention to local context leads to a deep understanding of such major themes in global cinema as justice, imperialism, diaspora, gender, and labor. Offering fresh takes on masterworks like The Missing Picture and S-21 while also shining a light on the director's lesser-known films, The Cinema of Rithy Panh will give readers a new appreciation for the boundless creativity and ethical sensitivity of one of Southeast Asia's cinematic visionaries., The essays in this groundbreaking collection examine how celebrated Cambodian director Rithy Panh counters the abstraction of mass violence with a cinema anchored in the body, the physical trace, the direct testimony, and the living landscape. They explore his unique aesthetic sensibility, examining the dynamic and sensuous images through which he suggests that "everything has a soul."
LC Classification NumberPN1998
