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The film itself, the material history of technology, a wide range of documents from advertising, trade journalism and technical manuals, to many different forms of film criticism and especially in the early years of the cinema, experimental, allusive, literary prose styles, written for most part for a cultivated, non-specialist readership. In what I would call a kind of experimental mythography Epstein, Gance, Canudo and others produce a complex linguistic and mythico-mimetic web.
Semantic fields overlap and oscillate proportionately with the object of their enquiry, as though trying to reimagine a primordial moment of kinetic and cognitive entrainment.
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Vernant writes in The Reason of Myth:. Myth is not only characterized by its polysemy and by the interlocking of its many different codes. In the unfolding of its narrative and the selection of the semantic fields it uses, it brings into play shifts, slides, tensions, and oscillations between the very terms that are distinguished or opposed in its categorical framework; it is as if, while being mutually exclusive these terms at the same time in some way imply one another.
Thus myth brings into operation a form of logic that we may describe, in contrast to the logic of non-contradiction of the philosophers, as a logic of the ambiguous, the equivocal, a logic of polarity. The Paris school Detienne, Vernant of studying the ancient world can also provide some conceptual co-ordinates through which to examine early film theory. Following the writings of historians, anthropologists, psychologists Ernst Cassierer, Marcel Mauss, Ignace Meyerson who were especially attentive to the peculiarity of human mentalities emphatically plural , Vernant et al.
An enormous portion of the films made during this time have disappeared, or surive only in fragments. The richness of archaic Greece in part stems from the way it straddles the world of myth, oral culture, poetry on the one hand, and the world of philosophy, writing, mathematics, on the other.
Perhaps what the study of early film theory calls for then is something akin to a philologically tinged historical anthropology.
In it, in some form or another, are nearly all of the insights that Canudo will develop, explain and grapple with in later articles. Phrases, terms, notions, appear again and again, in slightly different contexts, worded differently, with more or less emphasis. It is fragmentary, not systematic, made up of a series of variations, fugues, unusual metres, and unexpected modulations.
Most of the articles are a few pages long, none more than four. These articles wind together several important motifs, and the mode Canudo has adopted is serialism. One unfinished idea overlaps another. Metis is an efficacious and active intelligence which grapples with a concrete and ceaselessly moving reality.
For some, such as Plato, this kind of intelligence is no intelligence at all, impermanent, ephemeral, changeable. This is not mere curiosity: Giraud notes that periphrasis was endemic in the early writing on the cinema in French. Such chains of synonyms, turns of phrase, acts of naming, are the result of a conscious agility. Plastic Language and the Image The cinema is developing its own plastic language of light, one that differs from verbal language. Light has become a temporal medium of thought. So where verbal language links thoughts by means of the variable intensity and modulation of the voice, [55] this new language links proportion, light and shot-scale.
Indeed the cinema should not rely on verbal language at the expense of this plastic language.
Remember that words and terminology are extremely important for Canudo. Cinema is more than just a technology of illustration, it is also itself a radical new kind of script. In other words, just as writing underwent centuries of abstraction and adaptation so the basic image-making technique of the cinema will evolve until it attains the directness and clarity of a single letter.
And when the image is projected, the apparatus instantaneously reanimates this photo-chemical imprint.
The plasmatic power of the cinema transforms rhythm into a plastic structure. And when the image is projected, the apparatus instantaneously reanimates this photo-chemical imprint. Merci beaucoup pour cette lecture. This makes sense in the case of Christian Metz. Tome 1, Livres 5 et 8: Despite its crude misuse thus far, this power will mature into a kind of total plasticity. Merci Pomme, vous avez une voix extraordinaire!
Screen-personas are not heavy bodies of flesh and bone anymore, but rather luminescent centres [foyers] of power and relief. The first avatar is a photo-chemical sensitivity, a superficial suppleness with respect to light. It is also an other-wordly plasticity, a malleability, where silver-nitrate emulsion smeared onto synthetic celluloid film is housed in a mechanically intermittent array of lenses, beams of light, and fine-toothed gearing.
Despite its crude misuse thus far, this power will mature into a kind of total plasticity. The screen is the locus of this redimensionalisation. Patterns of causality between separate phenomena are radically rearranged by the new dimensionality of the screen. Personnage Theatre attracts, maintains attention through grimaces, disguises, and the unnatural transformation of a human being. The actor might even be part of the audience. No theatre actor, mime could do such a thing, because this structure of absence is missing; cinema is not just a language, it is also a script.
This is cinematic athleticism. These are difficult arguments. The actors are not being photographed, they are transformed into light and reanimated into luminous entities. That is, what is fixed, is a particular pattern of movement, a rhythmic slice of life. The plasmatic power of the cinema transforms rhythm into a plastic structure.
The recording and reanimative powers of the cinema produce a logic of absence which plasticises rhythm, fixing its structure more precisely than any metrical system could. Romaine first noticed that the gathering together of crowds in the modern city seemed to generate a new sort of entity, with its own attendant emotion. One of them is the relationship between Canudo and the reception of Symbolist aesthetics in early twentieth century France.
Much of the way Canudo thinks and writes is derived from Symbolist formulations. Any longer study of Canudo must consider this relationship. I also concentrate mainly on those writings of Canudo which focus on film aesthetics, and ignore most of his film criticism.
The writings of Jean Epstein bear this out well.
Over the last few decades the institutional structure of the cinema as art has been in part dismantled. In the first place, the cinemas themselves, particularly repertoire cinemas, have evaporated into multiplexes. With the boundaries of the filmic object mollified by and dispersed across various media, the moving image has become the ubiquitous substratum of countless interconnected sets of day-to-day screens. For reasons of space, I have included the original text only where I thought it important that the reader have access to the original wording.
I favour cognates if there are two equally suitable glosses. Bibliografia critica di Ricciotto Canudo. Psychologie musicale des civilisations, Paris: Conlan Music as Religion of the Future London: All subsequent citations refer to this edition abbreviated as UI. An Italian translation of the incomplete edition was made in Of course this sort of thing was not limited to writing on Canudo, it was a feature of many early histories of the cinema. Bianco e nero, Princeton University Press, p. Schena, , the proceedings of a conference with contributions in French and Italian; Giovanni Dotoli, Lo scrittore totale: Saggi su Ricciotto Canudo, Fasano: Schena, ; Alberto Boschi, Teorie del cinema.
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