Magic Realism, World Cinema, and the Avant-Garde: The Avant-Gard

Taylor & Francis

Magic Realism, World Cinema, and the Avant-GardeAuthor(s): Felicity Gee\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138232273, 978-1138232273\nSynopsis\nThis book follows the hybrid and contradictory history of magic realism through the writings of three key figures art historian Franz Roh, novelist Alejo Carpentier, and cultural critic Fredric Jameson drawing links between their political, aesthetic, and philosophical ideas on arts relationship to reality. \n\nMagic realism is vast in scope, spanning almost a century, and is often confused with neighbouring styles of literature or art, most notably surrealism. The fascinating conditions of modernist Europe are complex and contradictory, a spirit that magic realism has taken on as it travels far and wide. The filmmakers and writers in this book acknowledge the importance of feeling, atmosphere, and mood to subtly provoke and resist global capitalism. Theirs is the history.