So What, or How to Make Films with Words

by Alexander García Düttmann

A series of philosophical meditations on the nature of aesthetics across a wide array of filmmaking styles

Images, whether filmic or not, cannot be replaced by words. Yet words can make images. This is the general thesis underlying So What, a collection of essays on canonical filmmakers like Luchino Visconti and Orson Welles; more experimental directors, such as Marguerite Duras and Albert Serra; and visual artists, including...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810145367
• ISBN13: 9780810145368
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.1"