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Author : James Phillips
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 080475800X
This anthology of philosophical essays explores the interpersonal and political contexts in and against which the films of ten major postwar filmmakers were made.
Author : Hunter Vaughan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231161329
The formal techniques two classic French filmmakers developed to explore cinema's philosophical potential.
Author : Thomas E. Wartenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781135975883
Thinking on Screen: Film as Philosophy is an accessible and thought-provoking examination of the way films raise and explore complex philosophical ideas. Written in a clear and engaging style, Thomas Wartenberg examines films’ ability to discuss, and even criticize ideas that have intrigued and puzzled philosophers over the centuries such as the nature of personhood, the basis of morality, and epistemological skepticism. Beginning with a demonstration of how specific forms of philosophical discourse are presented cinematically, Wartenberg moves on to offer a systematic account of the ways in which specific films undertake the task of philosophy. Focusing on the films The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Modern Times, The Matrix, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Third Man, The Flicker, and Empire, Wartenberg shows how these films express meaningful and pertinent philosophical ideas. This book is essential reading for students of philosophy with an interest in film, aesthetics, and film theory. It will also be of interest to film enthusiasts intrigued by the philosophical implications of film.
Author : Robert Sinnerbrink
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441153432
A concise but comprehensive student guide to studying Emily Bronte's classic novel Wuthering Heights. It covers adaptations such as film and TV versions of the novel and student-friendly features include discussion points and a comprehensive guide to further reading.
Author : Christina Rawls,Diana Neiva,Steven S. Gouveia
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-25
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780429787133
This volume collects twenty original essays on the philosophy of film. It uniquely brings together scholars working across a range of philosophical traditions and academic disciplines to broaden and advance debates on film and philosophy. The book includes contributions from a number of prominent philosophers of film including Noël Carroll, Chris Falzon, Deborah Knight, Paisley Livingston, Robert Sinnerbrink, Malcolm Turvey, and Thomas Wartenberg. While the topics explored by the contributors are diverse, there are a number of thematic threads that connect them. Overall, the book seeks to bridge analytic and continental approaches to philosophy of film in fruitful ways. Moving to the individual essays, the first two sections offer novel takes on the philosophical value and the nature of film. The next section focuses on the film-as-philosophy debate. Section IV covers cinematic experience, while Section V includes interpretations of individual films that touch on questions of artificial intelligence, race and film, and cinema’s biopolitical potential. Finally, the last section proposes new avenues for future research on the moving image beyond film. This book will appeal to a broad range of scholars working in film studies, theory, and philosophy.
Author : Hanno Berger
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110754704
This book aims to redefine the relationship between film and revolution. Starting with Hannah Arendt’s thoughts on the American and French Revolution, it argues that, from a theoretical perspective, revolutions can be understood as describing a relationship between time and movement and that ultimately the spectators and not the actors in a revolution decide its outcome. Focusing on the concepts of ‘time,’ ‘movement,’ and ‘spectators,’ this study develops an understanding of film not as a medium of agitation but as a way of thinking that relates to the idea of historicity that opened up with the American and French Revolution, a way of thinking that can expand our very notion of revolution. The book explores this expansion through an analysis of three audiovisual stagings of revolution: Abel Gance’s epic on the French Revolution Napoléon, Warren Beatty’s essay on the Russian Revolution Reds, and the miniseries John Adams about the American Revolution. The author thereby offers a fresh take on the questions of revolution and historicity from the perspective of film studies.
Author : Mieke Bal
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781472532749
What is a moving image, and how does it move us? In Thinking In Film, celebrated theorist Mieke Bal engages in an exploration - part dialogue, part voyage - with the video installations of Finnish artist Eija-Liisa Ahtila to understand movement as artistic practice and as affect. Through fifteen years of Ahtila's practice, including such seminal works as The Annunciation, Where Is Where? and The House, Bal searches for the places where theoretical and artistic practices intersect, to create radical spaces in which genuinely democratic acts are performed. Bringing together different understandings of 'figure' from form to character, Bal examines the syntax of the exhibition and its ability to bring together installations, the work itself, the physical and ontological thresholds of the installation space and the use of narrative and genre. The double meaning of 'movement', in Bal's unique thought, catalyses anunderstanding of video installation work as inherently plural, heterogenous and possessed of revolutionary political potential. The video image as an art form illuminates the question of what an image is, and the installation binds viewers to their own interactions with the space. In this context Bal argues that the intersection between movement and space creates an openness to difference and doubt. By 'thinking in' art, we find ideas not illustrated by but actualized in artworks. Bal practices this theory in action to demonstrate how the video installation can move us to think beyond ordinary boundaries and venture into new spaces. There is no act more radical than figuring a vision of the 'other' as film allows artto do. Thinking In Film is Mieke Bal ather incisive, innovative best as she opens up the miraculous political potential of the condensed art of the moving image.
Author : FLAXMAN GREGORY SINN,Gregory Flaxman,Robert Sinnerbrink,Lisa Trahair
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1474401864
'Understanding Cinematic Thinking' explores an expanded sense of 'cinematic thinking' more attuned to the forms of affect, thought and experience that films can express. Focusing on questions of belief and critique in the work of celebrated filmmakers Robert Bresson, Lars von Trier and Michael Haneke, the authors elaborate the varieties of cinematic thinking in their works by combining close critical analysis with philosophical reflection.
Author : José Manuel Martins,Christine Reeh
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781443879583
Over the last few decades, film has increasingly become an issue of philosophical reflection from an ontological and epistemological perspective, and the claim “doing philosophy through film” has raised extensive discussion about its meaning. The mechanical reproduction of reality is one of the most prominent philosophical questions raised by the emergence of film at the end of the nineteenth century, inquiring into the ontological nature of both reality and film. Yet the nature of this audio-photographic and moving reproduction of reality constitutes an ontological puzzle, which has widely been disregarded as a main line of enquiry with direct consequences for philosophy. Regarding this background, this volume brings together the best papers from the Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film: Thinking Reality and Time through Film, held in 2014. What they all have in common is the discussion of new aspects and approaches of how philosophy relates to film. Whether by philosophizing through concrete examples of films or whether looking at film’s ontological reliance on time and image, or its intra-active entanglement with reality or truth, this book explores grasp film’s nature philosophically, and provides new insights for the film philosopher and the filmmaker, as well as for the freshman fascinated by film for philosophical reasons.
Author : Jean-Philippe Deranty,Alison Ross
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781441152978
This book forms the first critical study of Jacques Rancière's impact and contribution to contemporary theoretical and interdisciplinary studies. It showcases the work of leading scholars in fields such as political theory, history and aesthetic theory; each of whom are uniquely situated to engage with the novelty of Rancière's thinking within their respective fields. Each of the essays provides an investigation into the critical stance Rancière takes towards his contemporaries, concentrating on the versatile application of his thought to diverse fields of study (including, political and education theory, cinema studies, literary and aesthetic theory, and historical studies). The aim of this collection is to use the critical interventions Rancière's writing makes on current topics and themes as a way of offering new critical perspectives on his thought. Wielding their individual expertise, each contributor assesses his perspectives and positions on thinkers and topics of contemporary importance. The edition includes a new essay by Jacques Rancière, which charts the different problems and motivations that have shaped his work.
Author : Hunter Vaughan
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231161336
The formal techniques two classic French filmmakers developed to explore cinema's philosophical potential.
Author : James Phillips
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1503626970
Each essay in Cinematic Thinking is organized around an interpretation of a postwar filmmaker and the philosophical issues his or her work raises. The filmmakers covered are Alfred Hitchcock, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Altman, Carlos Saura, Glauber Rocha, Margarethe von Trotta, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, and Claire Denis. As the authors collected here are philosophers, rather than film critics, the volume approaches its subjects with a different set of interests and commitments from the bulk of works in film theory. Memory, judgment, subjectivity, terrorism, feminism, desire, race relations, experience, the work of mourning, and utopia are among the questions discussed in relation to some of the most significant films of the last fifty years. This collection analyzes the theoretical and political contexts in which the films were made and examines their reception down to the present day.
Author : Paisley Livingston
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-02
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199570171
Can cinema be a medium for philosophy? If so, how is the philosophizing done? Paisley Livingston explores the philosophical value of cinema. As a case-study for his intentionalist theory of authorship and interpretation he focuses on Ingmar Bergman's cinematic explorations of motivated irrationality, inauthenticity, and self-knowledge.
Author : Matthias Grotkopp
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110611298
How do the temporal and dynamic patterns of media forms and practices create complex constructions of meaning, identity and value? How can we describe the way cinematic images generate and transform the affectively grounded structures that survey, confirm or revise a political community’s horizon of values? Using the exemplary case of feelings of guilt, the author develops an approach that makes patterns of audiovisual compositions intelligible as aesthetic modulations of moral feelings. A sense of guilt is presented here as neither an individualistic psychological emotion nor an external social mechanism of control but as a paradigmatic case for understanding politics and history as based upon embodied affectivity and shared relations to the world. By taking three distinct examples – German Post-War cinema, Hollywood Western and films on climate change – patterns of audiovisual composition and the inherent calculation of affect are analyzed as practices shaping the conditions of possibility of political communities and their historicity.
Author : Andrew Klevan,Alex Clayton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2011-04-26
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781136728280
The Language and Style of Film Criticism brings together original essays from an international range of academics and film critics highlighting the achievements, complexities and potential of film criticism. In recent years, in contrast to the theoretical, historical and cultural study of film, film criticism has been relatively marginalised, especially within the academy. This book highlights the distinctiveness of film criticism and addresses ways in which it can take a more central place within the academy and develop in dynamic ways outside it. The Language and Style of Film Criticism is essential reading for academics, teachers, students and journalists who wish to understand and appreciate the language and style of film criticism.
