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If there is one film in the canon of Carl Theodor Dreyer that can be said to be, as Jacques Lacan might put it, his most ?painfully enjoyable,? it is Gertrud. The film's Paris premier in 1964 was covered by the Danish press as a national scandal; it was lambasted on its release for its lugubrious pace, wooden acting, and old-fashioned, stuffy milieu. Only later, when a younger generation of critics came to its defense, did the method in what appeared to be Dreyer's madness begin to become apparent. To make vivid just what was at stake for Dreyer, and still for us, in his final work, James Schamus focuses on a single moment in the film. He follows a trail of references and allusions back through a number of thinkers and artists (Boccaccio, Lessing, Philostratus, Charcot, and others) to reveal the richness and depth of Dreyer's work--and the excitement that can accompany cinema studies when it opens itself up to other disciplines and media. Throughout, Schamus pays particular attention to Dreyer's lifelong obsession with the ?real,? developed through his practice of ?textual realism,? a realism grounded not in standard codes of verisimilitude but on the force of its rhetorical appeal to its written, documentary sources. As do so many of the heroines of Dreyer's other films, such as La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc (1928), Gertrud serves as a locus for Dreyer's twin fixations; written texts, and the heroines who both embody and free themselves from them. Dreyer based Gertrud not only on Hjalmar Soderberg's play of 1906, but also on his own extensive research into the life of the ?real? Gertrud, Maria van Platen, whose own words Dreyer interpolated into the film. By using his film as a kind of return to the real woman beneath the text, Dreyer rehearsed another lifelong journey, back to the poor Swedish girl who gave birth to him out of wedlock and who gave him up for adoption to a Danish family, a mother whose existence Dreyer only discovered later in life, long after she had died.

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University of Washington Press
ISBN-10
0295988541
ISBN-13
9780295988542
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Author
James Schamus
Publication Name
Carl Theodor Dreyer's Gertrud : the Moving Word
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
128 Pages

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9in
Item Height
0.3in
Item Width
7in
Item Weight
7.2 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pn1997.G433s36 2008
Grade from
College Graduate Student
Reviews
"Schamus creates an intricate web of connections that sheds light especially on the conflicted relation of image and text in Dreyer's films." Brigitte Peuker, Yale University
Table of Content
List of illustrations Acknowledgments Why a book about Gertrud? If Gertrud is such a great failure, how is it so great? What does the "Real" have to do with Gertrud's "talkiness"? Why was Dreyer so fascinated with the "real" Gertrud? Why can't images and words (and men and women) stay married in Gertrud? Why are Dreyer's images, when they "quote," so obscene? So what, after all, is the tapestry quoting? Is Gertrud an ekphrastic film? At last, here's Dreyer's probable source -- but does it matter that we found it? Is Dreyer quoting Botticelli? What is Dreyer teaching us about the history of perspective, and how is Gertrud so interesting a contributor to this topic? What does perspective have to do with free will? How is Gertrud a kind of remake of The Passion of Joan of Arc? How did the Virgin Mary really get pregnant (and is that why Gertrud is childless)? Why are Joan and Gertrud so "hysterical"? How does the struggle between Dreyer's words and images open us up to the Real? Credits Cast Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2009
Topic
Film / General, Film / History & Criticism
Lccn
2008-012317
Dewey Decimal
791.43/75
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Performing Arts

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