Philosophers on film from Bergson to Badiou : a critical reader / edited by Christopher Kul-Want.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Want, Christopher, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Continental philosophy.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, [2019]

Summary:

Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou is an anthology of writings on cinema and film by many of the major thinkers in continental philosophy. The book presents a selection of fundamental texts, each accompanied by an introduction and exposition by the editor, Christopher Kul-Want, that places the philosophers within a historical and intellectual framework of aesthetic and social thought.Encompassing a range of intellectual traditions—Marxism, phenomenology, psychoanalysis, poststructuralism, gender and affect theories—this critical reader features writings by Bergson, Benjamin, Adorno and Horkheimer, Merleau-Ponty, Baudrillard, Irigaray, Lyotard, Deleuze, Kristeva, Agamben, Žižek, Nancy, Cavell, Rancière, Badiou, Stiegler, and Silverman. Many of the texts discuss cinema as a mass medium; others develop phenomenological analyses of particular films. Reflecting upon the potential of films to challenge dominant forms of ideology, the anthology considers the ways in which they can disrupt the clichés of capitalist images and offer radical possibilities for creating new worlds of visceral experience outside the grasp of habitual forms of knowledge and subjectivity. Ranging from the early silent period of cinema through the classics of European and Hollywood cinema to the early twenty-first century, the films discussed offer a vivid sense of these philosophers’ concepts and ideas, casting new light on the history of cinema. This reader is an essential and valuable resource for a wide range of courses in film and philosophy.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. Creative Evolution

2. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility

3. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception

4. The Film and the New Psychology

5. On Contemporary Alienation or the End of the Pact with the Devil

6. The Looking Glass, from the Other Side

7. Acinema

8. Cinema I: The Movement- Image

9. Cinema II: The Time- Image

10. The Malady of Grief: Duras

11. Notes on Gesture

12. “In His Bold Gaze My Ruin Is Writ Large”

13. And Life Goes On: Life and Nothing More

14. Contesting Tears: The Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman

15. From One Manhunt to Another: Fritz Lang Between Two Ages

16. Cinema as Philosophical Experimentation

17. Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise

18. The Miracle of Analogy: or, The History of Photography, Part 1

Selected Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-231-54936-9

OCLC:

1229160985