METAFILM: Materialist Rhetoric and Reflexive Cinema by Christopher Carter
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Dedication
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION: REFLEXIVE MATERIALISM
MATERIALISMS
THE TEMPERATURE OF DELIVERY
REFLEXIVE RHETORIC
THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING
COMING ATTRACTIONS
CHAPTER 1: REFUSAL
A KNOWING WINK
PAUL’S PARADOX
ANTICLIMAX
RHETORIC OF THE IRREVOCABLE
SAFE DISTANCE
CHAPTER 2: MEDIATED MOURNING
TRUE IN SPIRIT
(DIS)FIGURING HISTORY
WHO REMEMBERS THE EXTERMINATION OFTHE ARMENIANS?
WE WILL BRING NO PROOFS
CHAPTER 3: MATERIAL CORRESPONDENCES
THE HEAVENS WEEP
CORRESPONDING SUBSTANCES
LIKE A DREAM
CHAPTER 4: SOUND AFFECT
THE RHETORIC OF METADIEGETIC SOUND
THE STICKINESS OF FEELING STUCK
THE FANTASY OF CHORAL ATTUNEMENT
“BUT IT DID HAPPEN”
CHAPTER 5: WITNESS
THE RIGHT TO DOCUMENT
STAGING RACE
RE/CREATION
OUTSIDE THE METREON
CONCLUSION: UN CERTAIN REGARD (OR, FOUR WAYS OF LOOKING BACK)
REGARDING MATERIALITY
REGARDING HISTORY
REGARDING COLLECTIVES
NOTES TO THE INTRODUCTION
NOTES TO CHAPTER 1
NOTES TO CHAPTER 2
NOTES TO CHAPTER 3
NOTES TO CHAPTER 4
NOTES TO CHAPTER 5
NOTES TO THE CONCLUSION
WORKS CITED
INDEX