The Continental philosophy of film reader / edited by Joseph Westfall.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Westfall, Joseph, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Continental philosophy.

Philosophy, Modern--21st century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

xv, 662 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

Contents:

Section I Foundations

1 Ricciotto Canudo 15

The Birth of the Sixth Art (1911) 17

2 Georg Lukács 25

Thoughs on an Aesthetics of Cinema (1913) 28

3 Hugo Münsterberg 33

The Means and Function of the Photoplay (1916) 36

4 Rudolf Arnheim 49

Sound Film (1928-1932) 52

The Sad Future of Film (1930) 55

Sound Film Gone Astray (1932) 57

5 André Bazin 59

The Ontology of the Photographic Image (1945) 61

6 Jean Epstein 67

The Intelligence of a Machine (1946) 70

7 Béla Balázs 79

Theory of the Film (1948) 82

8 Roland Barthes 91

Romans in the Movies (1957) 94

Garbo's Face (1957) 96

Lost Continent (1957) 98

Section II Phenomenology and Existentialism

9 Jean-Paul Sartre 103

Motion Picture Art (1931) 106

10 André Malraux 111

Sketch for a Psychology of the Moving Pictures (1940) 114

11 Roman Ingarden 121

The Film (1961) 125

12 Maurice Merleau-Ponty 139

The Film and the New Psychology (1964) 143

13 Jean Louis Schefer 153

The Ordinary Man of the Cinema (1980) 156

14 Serge Daney 163

The Tracking Shot in Kapo (1992) 168

15 Daniel Frampton 181

Filmosophy (2006) 184

Section III Marxism and Critical Theory

16 Siegfried Kracauer 195

Cult of Distraction: One Berlin's Picture Palaces (1926) 197

17 Sergei Eisenstein 201

A Dialectic Approach to Film Form (1931) 204

18 Walter Benjamin 217

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1939) 220

19 Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno 241

The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception (1944) 244

20 Theodor W. Adorno 271

Transparencies on Film (1966) 274

21 Jacques Rancière 279

A Thwarted Fable (2001) 283

Section IV Psychology and Psychoanalysis

22 Jean Mitry 299

The Psychology of Montage (1963) 302

23 Jean-Louis Baudry 319

Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus (1970) 322

24 Fèlix Guattari 331

A Cinema of Desire (1973) 334

The Poor Man's Couch (1975) 341

25 Julia Kristeva 349

Fantasy and Cinema (1997) 352

26 Slavoj Zizek 365

The Strange Case of the Missing Lacanians (2001) 368

Section V Feminism and Gender Studies

27 Simone de Beauvoir 377

Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome (1959) 380

28 Laura Mulvey 389

Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975) 392

29 Teresa de Lauretis 403

Through the Looking-Glass: Women, Cinema, and Language (1984) 406

30 Judith Butler 425

Gender Is Burning (1993) 427

31 Jack Halberstam 435

The Transgender Look (2005) 439

32 Tina Chanter 455

Concluding Reflections on the Necrophilia of Fetishism (2008) 458

33 Drucilla Cornell 477

Shooting Eastwood (2009) 480

Section VI Postmodernism

34 Edgar Morin 489

The Semi-imaginary Reality of Man (1956) 491

35 Monique Wittig 501

Lacunary Films (1966) 503

36 Jean-François Lyotard 505

Acinema (1973) 507

37 Michel Foucault 515

Film and Popular Memory (1974) 518

38 Jean Baudrillard 529

History: A Retro Scenario (1981) 532

39 Paul Virilio 537

The Imposture of Immediacy (1984) 541

Sicut Prior est Tempore ita quo Potior Iure (1984) 546

40 Gilles Deleuze 553

The Time-Image (1985) 557

41 Giorgio Agamben 571

Notes on Gesture (1992) 573

42 Jean-Luc Nancy 579

On Evidence: Life and Nothing More, by Abbas Kiarostami (1995) 581

43 Alain Badiou 589

The False Movements of Cinema (1998) 592

44 Jacques Derrida 599

Cinema and Its Ghosts (2000) 602

45 Bernard Stiegler 615

Cinematic Time (2001) 618.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Continental philosophy of film reader

ISBN:

9781474275736

9781474275699

1474275699

1474275737

OCLC:

1008894925

Publisher Number:

99975858246