Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity

by Leo Bersani, Ulysse Dutoit

In each of the films discussed in this study - "Le Mepris", "All About My Mother", "The Thin Red Line" - something extraordinary is proposed. Or if not proposed, then shown, visually, by stranger and more powerful means than narrative or argument.

Genres: Film, Theory

184 pages, Paperback

First published August 25, 2004

About the author

Leo Bersani is an American literary theorist and Professor Emeritus of French at the University of California, Berkeley. He also taught at Wellesley College and Rutgers University.

Reviews

[Karl Steel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good lord did they screw up Thin Red Line. Great movie, except for the highly problematic, okay, let's call it Gauguinian relationship between Mr Jesus and the natives. Iirc, the book just forgets those moments by declaring that the silent Miranda Otto character is the film's only woman. What gives?