The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies

Goddard, M N. 2013. The Cinema of Raúl Ruiz: Impossible Cartographies. London: Wallflower Press. ISBN 9780231167307 [Book]

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Raúl Ruiz, while considered one of the world's most significant filmmakers by several film critics, is yet to be the subject of any thorough engagement with his work in English. This volume sets out on this task by mapping, as fully as possible, Ruiz's cinematic trajectory across more than five decades of prolific work, up to his death in 2011; ranging from his earliest work in Chile to high-budget 'European' costume dramas culminating in Mysteries of Lisbon (2010). It does so by treating Ruiz's work—with its surrealist, magic realist, popular cultural, and neo-Baroque sources—as a type of 'impossible' cinematic cartography, mapping real, imaginary, and virtual spaces, and crossing between different cultural contexts, aesthetic strategies, and technical media. It argues that across the different phases of Ruiz's work identified, there are key continuities such as the invention of singular cinematic images and the interrogation of their possible and impossible combinations.

Item Type:

Book

Identification Number (DOI):

https://doi.org/10.7312/columbia/9780231167314.001.0001

Keywords:

Transnational Cinema, Surrealism, Neo Baroque, Aesthetics, Exile, Raul Ruiz

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Departments, Centres and Research Units:

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

Date:

September 2013

Item ID:

32485

Date Deposited:

10 Nov 2022 16:39

Last Modified:

10 Nov 2022 16:39

URI:

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/32485

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