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Love in the Time of Cinema This page intentionally left blank Love in the Time of Cinema Kristi McKim ©KristiMcKim2012 Excerptfrom‘LoveCallsUstotheThingsofThisWorld’from ThingsofThisWorld,copyright©1956andrenewed1984by RichardWilbur.ReprintedwithpermissionofHoughtonMifflin HarcourtPublishingCompany. Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2012 978-0-230-30136-8 Allrightsreserved.Noreproduction,copyortransmissionofthis publicationmaybemadewithoutwrittenpermission. Noportionofthispublicationmaybereproduced,copiedortransmitted savewithwrittenpermissionorinaccordancewiththeprovisionsofthe Copyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988,orunderthetermsofanylicence permittinglimitedcopyingissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency, SaffronHouse,6-10KirbyStreet,LondonEC1N8TS. Anypersonwhodoesanyunauthorizedactinrelationtothispublication maybeliabletocriminalprosecutionandcivilclaimsfordamages. Theauthorhasassertedherrighttobeidentified astheauthorofthisworkinaccordancewiththeCopyright, DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Firstpublished2012by PALGRAVEMACMILLAN PalgraveMacmillanintheUKisanimprintofMacmillanPublishersLimited, registeredinEngland,companynumber785998,ofHoundmills,Basingstoke, HampshireRG216XS. PalgraveMacmillanintheUSisadivisionofStMartin’sPressLLC, 175FifthAvenue,NewYork,NY10010. PalgraveMacmillanistheglobalacademicimprintoftheabovecompanies andhascompaniesandrepresentativesthroughouttheworld. Palgrave®andMacmillan®areregisteredtrademarksintheUnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom,Europeandothercountries. ISBN 978-1-349-33701-9 ISBN 978-0-230-35405-0 (eBook) DOI 10.1057/9780230354050 Thisbookisprintedonpapersuitableforrecyclingandmadefromfully managedandsustainedforestsources.Logging,pulpingandmanufacturing processesareexpectedtoconformtotheenvironmentalregulationsofthe countryoforigin. AcataloguerecordforthisbookisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData McKim,Kristi,1977– Loveinthetimeofcinema/KristiMcKim. p. cm. Includesindex. 1. Loveinmotionpictures. I. Title. PN1995.9.L6M372011 791.43(cid:2)6543—dc23 2011030616 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 To my parents, Robert Bradley McKim and Brunita Irene Musitano McKim, because of whom I’ve felt love every moment of my life This page intentionally left blank Contents ListofIllustrations ix Acknowledgments x Introduction 1 Aestheticexpression,revelatorymomentsandthe ‘astoundedsoul’ 1 Scholarlycontext 3 FilmsofLoveintheTimeofCinema 6 1 LoveintheTimeofCinema:TheoryandContext 9 Modernity’scrisisofthemoment 10 Loveinthetimeofphotography 11 Love’saestheticandtemporalpossibilities 20 Livinghistoricallyandaesthetically 28 Historicalandcinematictime 31 2 CinematicReconciliationofRomanticandHistorical Time:WimWenders’WingsofDesire 36 The‘conjunctionofthecouple’intime 37 RomantictimeinWingsofDesire 41 Loveandtheimplicationsofromanticizinghistory 48 WingsofDesire’shistoricalpastandgenderedhistory 54 Thefaceinclose-up 61 Synchronizingromanticandcinematictimes 64 3 MortalityandCinephiliaintheCinematicElegy:Agnès Varda’sJacquotdeNantes 72 Mortalityandcinematictime 73 Mortalityandtheclose-up 77 Mortalityandcinephilia 84 Thecinematicelegyandthecontinuanceofmourning: Varda’sWorldofJacquesDemy 92 Thecinematicandcinephiliclife:Varda’sBeachesofAgnès 95 vii viii Contents 4 LearningtoLoveWhatPasses:HirokazuKore-eda’s AfterLife 103 AfterLife’sstoryandreception 104 Photogenicillumination 107 Cinematicandseasonaltime 111 Photogenicloveandpunctualprescience 115 Perceptualtransformationsofgenderedandcinematictime 122 Benevolentandepistemicproductions 125 LearningtolovewhatpassesinKore-eda’sStillWalking 128 5 MakingArtofWhatEndures:DorisDörrie’sCherry BlossomsandOlivierAssayas’SummerHours 137 Seeing‘now’togetherinCherryBlossoms 139 CherryBlossoms’ephemeralstyle 143 CherryBlossoms’sharedperspectiveincinematicdeath 148 The‘lastsliverofsunlightonalate-summerday’:Summer Hours’passingtime 152 SummerHours’fantasyoftheMuséed’Orsayandcinematic assuagingofloss 155 SummerHours’fantasticalclosure:Sylvie,theenduring landscapeandstylisticloss 159 Conclusion 170 Notes 179 Bibliography 192 Index 201 List of Illustrations 1.1 Sherlock,Jr.(dir.BusterKeaton,1924,USA) 19 1.2 Sherlock,Jr.(dir.BusterKeaton,1924,USA) 20 1.3 Sunrise:ASongofTwoHumans(dir.F.W.Murnau,1927, USA) 24 1.4 TheThinRedLine(dir.TerrenceMalick,1998,USA) 26 1.5 TheThinRedLine(dir.TerrenceMalick,1998,USA) 26 1.6 TheThinRedLine(dir.TerrenceMalick,1998,USA) 27 1.7 TheThinRedLine(dir.TerrenceMalick,1998,USA) 27 2.1 WingsofDesire(dir.WimWenders,1987,Germany) 45 2.2 WingsofDesire(dir.WimWenders,1987,Germany) 45 2.3 WidowJones(dir.WilliamHeise,1896,USA) 67 3.1 JacquotdeNantes(dir.AgnèsVarda,1991,France) 79 3.2 JacquotdeNantes(dir.AgnèsVarda,1991,France) 79 3.3 JacquotdeNantes(dir.AgnèsVarda,1991,France) 80 3.4 JacquotdeNantes(dir.AgnèsVarda,1991,France) 82 3.5 WorldofJacquesDemy(dir.AgnèsVarda,1995,France) 92 4.1 AfterLife(dir.HirokazuKore-eda,1998,Japan) 108 4.2 AfterLife(dir.HirokazuKore-eda,1998,Japan) 117 4.3 AfterLife(dir.HirokazuKore-eda,1998,Japan) 119 4.4 AfterLife(dir.HirokazuKore-eda,1998,Japan) 128 5.1 CherryBlossoms(dir.DorisDörrie,2008,Germanyand Japan) 142 5.2 CherryBlossoms(dir.DorisDörrie,2008,Germanyand Japan) 146 5.3 CherryBlossoms(dir.DorisDörrie,2008,Germanyand Japan) 151 5.4 SummerHours(dir.OlivierAssayas,2008,France) 161 5.5 SummerHours(dir.OlivierAssayas,2008,France) 162 5.6 SummerHours(dir.OlivierAssayas,2008,France) 164 ix
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