Phenomenology of film : a Heideggerian account of the film experience / Shawn Loht.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Loht, Shawn, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Philosophy in motion pictures.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

x, 209 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Lexington Books, [2017]

Summary:

Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience uses the philosophy of Martin Heidegger as a framework for addressing key issues in the philosophy of film. This study grapples with the question of how we can reconcile film as a popular entertainment medium with Heidegger's own various critiques of popular media and culture throughout his career. Shawn Loht also explores topics such as the ontology of film and moving images; the phenomenological character of the viewer experience; film conceived as a art medium; and the function of films as vehicles for philosophical thought. He further discusses important concepts from Heidegger's philophy-Dasein, existentiality, world, art and poetry, and the nature of philosophy. The first four chapters take up these issues from a theoretical perspective. The remaining chapters provide robust application of the theoretical material to the films of three contemporary filmmakers: Terrence Malick, Michael Haneke, and David Gordon Green. As the first single-author monograph that takes up Heidegger's relevance to film, Phenomenoloty of Film will be of particular interest to philosophers of film and specialists of film and media studies working in the intersection of phenomenology and film or phenomenological approaches to issues in popular culture. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Précis to a Heideggerian Phenomenology of Film 1

2 Heidegger's Being and Time: Film Experience as Being-in-the-World 37

3 Film and Heidegger's Philosophy of Art 75

4 Phenomenology and the Concept of Film-as-Philosophy 113

5 Terrence Malick 149

6 Michael Haneke's Code Unknown and The White Ribbon 171

7 David Gordon Green's Joe, and an Afterword 191.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-205) and index.

ISBN:

1498519024

9781498519021

OCLC:

992267537