Wittgenstein at the movies : cinematic investigations / edited by Béla Szabados and Christina Stojanova.

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951.

Wittgenstein (Motion picture).

Wittgenstein Tractatus (Motion picture).

Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951--In motion pictures.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig.

Physical Description:

xix, 146 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, [2011]

Summary:

Ludwig Wittgenstein loved movies, and based on his remarks on watching them, there is a strong connection between his experience of watching films and his thoughts on aesthetics. Furthermore, however, Wittgenstein himself has been invoked in recent cinema. Wittgenstein at the Movies is centered on in-depth explorations of two intriguing experimental films on Wittgenstein: Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein and P ter Forg cs' Wittgenstein Tractatus. The featured essays look at cinematic interpretations of Wittgenstein's life and philosophy in a manner bound to provoke the lively interest of Wittgenstein scholars, film theorists, and students of film aesthetics. As well, the book engages a broader audience concerned with philosophical issues about film and Wittgenstein's cultural significance, with the world of fin-de-si cle Vienna, of Cambridge in the first half of the twentieth century, of artistic modernism.

Contents:

Wittgenstein at the movies: an introduction / Béla Szabados and Christina Stojanova

Showing, Not Saying: Filming a Philosophical Genius / William Lyons

Remarks on the Scripts for Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein / Michael O'Pray

The World Hued: Jarman and Wittgenstein on Colour / Steven Burns

Sketches of Landscapes: Wittgenstein after Wittgenstein / Daniel Steuer

"How It Was Then": Home Movies as History in Péter Forgács's Meanwhile Somewhere / William C. Wees

Meaning Through Pictures: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Péter Forgács / Béla Szabados and Andrew Lugg

Beyond Text and Image: Péter Forgács and his Wittgenstein Tractatus / Christina Stojanova.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780739148853

0739148850

9780739148877

0739148877

OCLC:

693814703