Montage as Perceptual Experience by Mario Slugan
Alfred D blin's novel Berlin Alexanderplatz and its film adaptations by Jutzi and Fassbinder are canonical works of literature and cinema, and yet there is no monograph that treats all three. This omission is even more striking since D blin's novel is seen as the most famous example of literary appropriation of film montage aesthetics. Mario Slugan addresses this glaring oversight by considering montage in experiential, historic, stylistic, and narratological terms. Starting from the novel argument that montage is best understood as a perceptual experience rather than as a juxtaposition of meaning, Slugan proposes that it was the perceived experiential similarity with Dada photomontage and Soviet montage films rather than any semantic contrast that made contemporary critics identify Berlin Alexanderplatz as the first novel to appropriate film montage. It was the perceived relative absence of montage in the filmings of the novel, moreover, that significantly contributed to their contemporary dismissals as failed adaptations. Slugan argues that both Jutzi's and Fassbinder's films nevertheless present innovative types ofboth visual and sound montage. These, in turn, allow for the articulation of medium-specific traits of film montage as opposed to those of literary montage, including the organization of time and space, the use of ready-made material, and the relation of montage to the figure of the narrator. Mario Slugan is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Fellow at the Centre for Cinema and Media Studies, Ghent University.-
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Slugan's very detailed formal analysis of all three works [Döblin's novel and Jutzi's and Fassbinder's films] demonstrates that their techniques are much more varied and complex than the label of montage might suggest* MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW [Matthias Uecker] *
Slugan, Mario: - Mario Slugan is Lecturer in Film Studies, Queen Mary University of London, UK. He is the author of Montage as Perceptual Experience: Berlin Alexanderplatz from Dü¾¦˜¼blin to Fassbinder (2017), Noü¾˜¦”¼l Carroll on Film: A Philosophy of Art and Popular Culture (Bloomsbury, 2018), and Fiction and Imagination in Early Cinema (Bloomsbury, 2019). He is also the editor of an open-access peer-reviewed academic journal Apparatus: Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe and book review editor for Early Popular Visual Culture.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781640140059 |
| ISBN 10 | 1640140050 |
| Title | Montage as Perceptual Experience |
| Author | Mario Slugan |
| Series | Screen Cultures: German Film And The Visual |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Camden House |
| Year published | 2017-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 254 |
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