Baroque Tragedy and the Cinema
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787). This special issue belongs to the section "Film, Television, and Media Studies in the Humanities".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 17 November 2024 | Viewed by 200
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Baroque tragedy is a vibrant scholarly field that entered the interdisciplinary realm in the mid-to-late 20th century once scholars began to concentrate on its affinities with the illusory tactics of cinema. Indeed, cinema affords space for overlaying metaphors and the trompe l'oeil effect central to Baroque practice. Walter Benjamin, Bertolt Brecht, Wlad Godzich, Nicholas Spadaccini, and Gilles Deleuze were exceptional in exploring these connections, while filmmakers such as Raul Ruiz equally articulated the role of mnemonics in Baroque tragedy and cinema. For this Special Issue, we invite the submission of exploratory papers on select Baroque tragedies and the stylistic particulars that distinguish them from Renaissance works, films or filmmakers whose style can be read as baroque, scholars who have contributed to the crucial linking of the Baroque aesthetician with cinematic theory and practice, and how cinematic practice allowed for a renewed interest in Baroque tragedy.
You are invited to contribute papers on topics including but not limited to the following:
- The relation between the historical Baroque and the contemporacy of Baroque style in cinema;
- Authors' critique analysis of films often cited as Baroque;
- Critiques of films considered but not noted by others as Baroque but shown as Baroque by the authors of the articles;
- Close analysis by theorists who have written on Baroque and Cinema. Examples are Merleau-ponty, Guy Scarbitta, Wolfflin, or Deleuze.
Abstracts (200-300 words) are also welcome and should be sent to the Editor Alice Mikal (email [email protected]) by June 30th. For papers to be considered for publication, additional information will be required by November 17th. These papers will also be peer-reviewed. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Dr. Alice Mikal Craven
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- baroque
- tragedy
- illusion
- cinema
- film theory
