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A Philosophical History of Documentary, 1895–19591917–1921: Blaise Cendrars

A Philosophical History of Documentary, 1895–1959: 1917–1921: Blaise Cendrars [In this chapter I scrutinize a short though enigmatic expression: “Space. Captured Life. Life of the Depth.” It is drawn from the manifesto “The ABCs of Cinema” written in the course of four years (1917–1921) by the Swiss-born modernist poet Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961). Even though the word “documentary” was not explicitly placed at the epicenter of Cendrars’s cinematic attention, I argue not only that this poetic enunciation stands for a deeply rooted ontological feature of documentariness. Further, and more poignantly, it dialogues (though obliquely and obliviously) with a deep documentary principle that emerged synchronously with Dziga Vertov’s documentary doctrine: a sign of its definitional strength and relevancy across time and space.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Philosophical History of Documentary, 1895–19591917–1921: Blaise Cendrars

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Springer International Publishing
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978-3-030-79465-1
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[In this chapter I scrutinize a short though enigmatic expression: “Space. Captured Life. Life of the Depth.” It is drawn from the manifesto “The ABCs of Cinema” written in the course of four years (1917–1921) by the Swiss-born modernist poet Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961). Even though the word “documentary” was not explicitly placed at the epicenter of Cendrars’s cinematic attention, I argue not only that this poetic enunciation stands for a deeply rooted ontological feature of documentariness. Further, and more poignantly, it dialogues (though obliquely and obliviously) with a deep documentary principle that emerged synchronously with Dziga Vertov’s documentary doctrine: a sign of its definitional strength and relevancy across time and space.]

Published: Sep 16, 2021

Keywords: Capture; Life; Space; Life of the depth

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