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Classic works exploring the nexus of the cinematic image and the human mind
and the mythic nature of movie stardomat last available in English!
THE CINEMA, OR THE IMAGINARY MAN
Edgar Morin
Translated by Lorraine Mortimer
University of Minnesota Press | 320 pages | 2005
ISBN 0-8166-4037-8 | hardcover | $59.95
ISBN 0-8166-4038-6 | paperback | $19.95
When The Cinema, or The Imaginary Man first appeared in 1956, Edgar Morin
perceived in the cinema a complex phenomenon capable of illuminating truths
about thought, imagination, and human nature. Now making its
English-language debut, this provocative work draws on insights from poets,
filmmakers, anthropologists, and philosophers to restore to the cinema the
sense of magic first enjoyed at the dawn of the medium.
³This fluid translation of and introduction to The Cinema, or The Imaginary
Man by one of France's major thinkers is long overdue. Written at a time
when film theory leaned to the reductive and severe, Edgar Morin instead
embraced the broadest frameworks and wrote with great pleasure; his work on
the subjectivity of participation in the experience of watching film is as
current as ever.² Faye Ginsburg
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the bookıs
webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/M/morin_cinema.html
THE STARS
Edgar Morin
Translated by Richard Howard
Foreword by Lorraine Mortimer
University of Minnesota Press | 136 pages | 2005
ISBN 0-8166-4122-6 | hardcover | $53.95
ISBN 0-8166-4123-4 | paperback | $17.95
Edgar Morin investigates the star system from its evolution when Chaplin,
Garbo, and Valentino lived at a distance from their fans, to stars like
Humphrey Bogart and Marilyn Monroe who became more approachable, and
concludes with an analysis of the adulation surrounding James Dean.
Ultimately, Morin finds, stars serve as intermediaries between the real and
the imaginary.
³The Stars is a rich and insight-filled book about film as a resonant,
'magical' art.² Dana Polan
For more information, including the table of contents, visit the bookıs
webpage:
http://www.upress.umn.edu/Books/M/morin_stars.html
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