Boekpublicaties Wanda Strauven << terug

- Marinetti e il cinema: tra attrazione e sperimentazione.
Udine: Campanotto. lees
- The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded (ed.). AUP. 2006
- Homo orthopedicus. Le corps et ses prothèses à l’époque (post)moderniste. Met N. Roelens(eds.). Paris, L’Harmattan. 2001

2006
- Marinetti e il cinema: tra attrazione e sperimentazione.
While Strauven does not set out to write a critical biography of Marinetti, or even to rewrite the history of futurist cinema, her Marinetti e il cinema. Tra attrazione e sperimentazione successfully shows how important, indeed crucial, the cinematic medium was for the intellectual dynamics and radical ferment that the founder of Italian Futurism so spectacularly deployed across the whole field of the arts, literature and technical media. Strauven’s book therefore contributes a significant chapter to the archaeology of the arts in the 20th century, because it is only in the 21st century that we are beginning to grasp just how profoundly the great names in modern literature and artistic modernism sensed (and resented) the cinema – popular, irreverent, experimental and commercial – as their inspiration as well as their nemesis.

-The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded.
Twenty years ago, noted film scholars Tom Gunning and André Gaudreault introduced the phrase “cinema of attractions” to describe the essential qualities of films made in the medium’s earliest days, those produced between 1895 and 1906. Now, The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded critically examines the term and its subsequent wide-ranging use in film studies.

The collection opens with a history of the term, tracing the collaboration between Gaudreault and Gunning, the genesis of the term in their attempts to explain the spectacular effects of motion that lay at the heart of early cinema, and the pair’s debts to Sergei Eisenstein and others. This reconstruction is followed by a look at applications of the term to more recent film productions, from the works of the Wachowski brothers to virtual reality and video games.

With essays by an impressive collection of international film scholars – and featuring contributions by Gunning and Gaudreault as well – The Cinema of Attractions Reloaded will be necessary reading for all scholars of early film and its continuing influence.

2001 - Homo orthopedicus. Le corps et ses prothèses à l’époque (post)moderniste.
In December 1999 an international conference entitled “Homo orthopedicus” took place at the museum of contemporary art of Antwerp, bringing together scholars from various disciplines of the Humanities, all appealed by the new apprehension of the subject and the human body around 1900. On the remnants of a multisecular anthropocentrism emerged a new human whose body was no longer considered the envelop of the soul but became interrogated for itself in its complexity, its vulnerability and, especially, its susceptibility to interact with new technologies. It is precisely in this context that art critique Roberto Longhi, timorous of seeing this new paradigm in action in the mannequins of Giorgio de Chirico, launched the formula “homo orthopedicus”. An ambiguous formula, that is, charged with a whole imaginary favorable or unfavorable to this modernist human prototype, to which today’s cyberculture, in its turn well on the way to create new humans, is indebted.

The volume explores the problematic of the body and its prostheses according to five access points: 1. historical, 2. literary, 3. aesthetic, 4. theatrical, 5. photo/cinematographic.

With contributions by Tim Armstrong, Mieke Bal, Günter Berghaus, Sjef Houppermans, Herman Parret, Ernst van Alphen, Ann Van Sevenant and David Wills, among others.

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