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THINKING REVOLUTION THROUGH FILM - HANNO BERGER...

This book aims to redefine the relationship between film and revolution. Starting with Hannah
Arendt's thoughts on the American and French Revolution  it argues that  from a theoretical
perspective  revolutions can be understood as describing a relationship between time and
movement and that ultimately the spectators and not the actors in a revolution decide its
outcome. Focusing on the concepts of 'time ' 'movement ' and 'spectators ' this study develops
an understanding of film not as a medium of agitation but as a way of thinking that relates to
the idea of historicity that opened up with the American and French Revolution  a way of
thinking that can expand our very notion of revolution. The book explores this expansion
through an analysis of three audiovisual stagings of revolution: Abel Gance's epic on the
French Revolution Napoléon  Warren Beatty's essay on the Russian Revolution Reds  and the
miniseries John Adams about the American Revolution. The author thereby offers a fresh take on
the questions of revolution and historicity from the perspective of film studies.

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