Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• García-Mainar, Luis M

Titel

Pictorial Realism and Introspection

Ist Teil von

• The Introspective Realist Crime Film, 2016, p.75-105

Ort / Verlag

United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The chapter discusses the continuity of the sedate 1970s thriller, exemplified by Klute or Three Days of the Condor, to the present by focusing on one of the aesthetic configurations of the introspective realist crime film: pictorial realism. Analyses of Tony Gilroy’s Michael Clayton and Tomas Alfredson’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy illustrate a blend of introspection, pessimistic outlook and a pictorial realism of carefully designed shot compositions, slow narrative rhythms and meaningful spaces. Shorter discussions of related films like Paul Haggis’ In the Valley of Elah, Ben Affleck’s Gone Baby Gone, Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Das Leben der Anderen and Corneliu Porumboiu’s Politist, adjective reveal a complex web of transnational influence, from the French New Wave to the new Slow Cinema.