The intelligence of a machine / Jean Epstein ; translated by Christophe Wall-Romana.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Epstein, Jean, 1897-1953, author.

Contributor:

Wall-Romana, Christophe, translator.

Series:

Univocal

Standardized Title:

Intelligence d'une machine. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (127 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis, Minnesota : Univocal, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The advent of the cinema radically altered our comprehension of time, space, and reality. With his experience as a pioneering avant-garde filmmaker, Jean Epstein uses the universes created by the cinematograph to deconstruct our understanding of how time and space, reality and unreality, continuity and discontinuity, determinism and randomness function both inside and outside the cinema. Time, he says, should be regarded as the first, not the fourth, dimension--and the cinematograph allows us, for the first time, to manipulate it in directions and speeds of our choosing. The theoretical work of Jean Epstein greatly influenced later generations of cinema philosophers, notably Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Rancière, but the bulk of his work remains unpublished. The Intelligence of a Machine , his first major title published in English, is one of the earliest philosophies of cinema.

Contents:

The philosophy of cinema

Signs

The interchangeability of continuity and discontinuity

Non-temporal time

Neither spirit nor matter

The randomness of determinism and the determinism of randomness

The wrong side equals the right side

Photo-electric psychoanalysis

Mechanical philosophy

Quantity mother of quality

The relativity of logic

The law of laws

Irrealism.

Notes:

"Translated from the French by Christophe Wall-Romana as The intelligence of a machine." -- T.p. verso.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-937561-98-4

OCLC:

967532869