Film as philosophy / Bernd Herzogenrath, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Herzogenrath, Bernd, 1964- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

xxv, 341 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2017]

Summary:

Film and philosophy have much in common, and books have been written on film and philosophy. But can films be, or do, philosophy? Can they "think"? Film as Philosophy is the first book to explore this fascinating question historically, thematically, and methodically. Bringing together leading scholars from universities across the globe, Film as Philosophy presents major new research that leads film studies and philosophy into a productive dialogue. It provides a uniquely sweeping, historical overview of the confluence of film and philosophy for more than a century, considering films from Jean Renoir, Lars von Trier, J rgen Leth, David Lynch, Michael Haneke, and others; the written works of filmmakers who also theorized on the medium, including Sergei Eisenstein and Jean Epstein; and others who have written on cinema, including Hugo M nsterberg, B la Bal zs, Andr Bazin, Henri Bergson, Gilles Deleuze, Stanley Cavell, Alain Badiou, Jacques Ranci re, and many more. Representing a major step toward establishing a media philosophy that puts the status, role, and function of film into a new perspective, Film as Philosophy removes representational techniques from the center of inquiry, replacing these with the medium's ability to "think." Hence it accords film with "agency," and the dialogue between it and philosophy (and even neuroscience) is negotiated anew. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: film and/as philosophy: an elective affinity? / Bernd Herzogenrath

Striking poses: gesture, image, and remake in the cinematic Bergson / John Ó Maoiarca

Hugo Münsterberg, film, and philosophy / Robert Sinnerbrink

Different, even wholly irrational arguments: the film philosophy of Béla Balázs / Adrian Martin

This is your brain on cinema: Antonin Artaud / Gregory Flaxman

From lyrosophy to anti-philosophy: the thought of cinema in Jean Epstein / Christophe Wall-Romana

Montage Eisenstein: mind the gap / Julia Vassilieva

André Bazin's film theory and the history of ideas / Angela Dalle Vacche

Strange topologics: Deleuze takes a ride down David Lynch's Lost highway / Bernd Herzogenrath

Hurray for Hollywood: philosophy and cinema according to Stanley Cavell / Elisabeth Bronfen

Thinking cinema with Alain Badiou / Alex Ling

Thinking as feast: Raymonde Carasco / Nicole Brenez

Rancière's film theory as deviation / Tom Conley

Movie-made philosophy / Noël Carroll

"Not time's fool": marriage as an ethical relationship in Michael Haneke's Amour

Thomas E. Wartenberg

Experience and explanation in the cinema / Murray Smith.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781517900502

1517900506

9781517900519

1517900514

OCLC:

951094339