ISBN : 9782296541146
MELVILLE ET L'ESTHÉTIQUE DE LA TRAGÉDIE
I submit that fim and tragedy are incompatible with each other. [...] If film is a photographic medium, it must gravitate towards the expanses of outer reality - an open-ended, limitless world which bears little ressemblance to the finite and ordered cosmos set by tragedy. Unlike this cosmos, where destiny defeats chance and all the light falls on human interaction, the world of film is a flow of random events involving both human and inanimate objects. Nor can the tragic be evoked by images of that flow, it is an exclusively mental experience which has no correspondences in camera-reality...1...