Love in the Time of Cinema
Kristi McKim offers close-analyses of films in which attachment and detachment, intimacy and distance, ephemera and endurance become more visible and meaningful. Films discussed include Wim Wenders' Wings of Desire , Agnès Varda's Jacq
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Love in the Time of Cinema Kristi McKim
© Kristi McKim 2012 Excerpt from ‘Love Calls Us to the Things of This World’ from Things of This World, copyright © 1956 and renewed 1984 by Richard Wilbur. Reprinted with permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
Softcover reprint of the hardcover 1st edition 2012 978-0-230-30136-8 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6-10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The author has asserted her right to be identified as the author of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2012 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above companies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries.
ISBN 978-1-349-33701-9 DOI 10.1057/9780230354050
ISBN 978-0-230-35405-0 (eBook)
This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and manufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data McKim, Kristi, 1977– Love in the time of cinema / Kristi McKim. p. cm. Includes index. 1. Love in motion pictures. I. Title. PN1995.9.L6M37 2011 2011030616 791.43 6543—dc23 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
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Contents
List of Illustrations
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction Aesthetic expression, revelatory moments and the ‘astounded soul’ Scholarly context Films of Love in the Time of Cinema
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1 Love in the Time of Cinema: Theory and Context Modernity’s crisis of the moment Love in the time of photography Love’s aesthetic and temporal possibilities Living historically and aesthetically Historical and cinematic time
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2 Cinematic Reconciliation of Romantic and Historical Time: Wim Wenders’ Wings of Desire T
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