European film theory / edited by Temenuga Trifonova.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Trifonova, Temenuga.

Series:

AFI film readers.

AFI film readers

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Europe.

Motion pictures.

Film criticism--Europe.

Film criticism.

Europe--In motion pictures.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (383 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : New York : Routledge, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

European Film Theory explores the 'Europeanness' of European film theory, its philosophical origins, the 'culture wars' between 'Continental' and 'Analytical' film theory and philosophy, the major discursive and epistemological shifts in the history of Continental film theory, the relationship between Continental philosophy of art and philosophy of history and European film theory. Writing from a range of disciplines and perspectives, the contributors to this new volume in the AFI FILM READERS series offer fresh interpretations of European film theorists and illuminate the politica

Contents:

book cover; title; copyright; contents; illustrations; acknowledgments; introduction: that perpetually obscure object of theory; part one: european film theory; one: european film theory: from crypto-nationalism to trans-nationalism; two: the aesthetics of race in european film theory; three: the disunity of film theory and the disunity of aesthetics; four: real location, fantasy space, performative place: double occupancy and mutual interference in european cinema; part two: film and philosophy; five: film as philosophy: a mission impossible?

six: platonic reconstruction and residual kantianism in film theoryseven: epstein, bergson, and vision; eight: heidegger and cinema; nine: listening and touching, looking and thinking: the dialogue in philosophy and film between jean-luc nancy and claire denis; part three: politics, history, ideology, and fi lm theory; ten: fabulation and contradiction: jacques rancière on cinema; eleven: the gaze of biocinema; twelve: from cinema to history: kracauer's shifting philosophical historiography; thirteen: disposition: from film theory to human action; part four: aesthetics and film theory

fourteen: between the ornament and the corpse: adolf loos and classical film theoryfifteen: baroque dialectics or dialectical baroque: sergei eisenstein in/on mexico; sixteen: a screen for projection: ricciotto canudo's exponential aesthetics and the parisian avant-gardes; seventeen: synaesthesia in fi lm theory; part five: realism revisited; eighteen: innocence and ontology: the truthfulness of andré bazin; nineteen: from distraction to indeterminacy to distraction: kracauer and contemporary film realist discourse; twenty: national identity and realism in postwar italian film and film theory

twenty - one: neorealism at a distanceappendix: teaching aid; contributors; index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-135-90253-4

1-282-25650-5

9786612256509

0-203-89370-0

9780203893708

OCLC:

443273444