Film Figures : An Organological Approach / Warwick Mules.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mules, Warwick, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Characters and characteristics in motion pictures.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (193 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, [2024]

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

Film Figures develops a figural account of the memory structure of films. Employing theoretical concepts drawn from a range of sources, including French post-humanist philosophy and German Idealism, the book undertakes an organology of film guided by the work of Bernard Stiegler whose philosophy of mnemotechnesis provides the framework of analysis. Situating films in the quantum field of spacetime relativity as a field of cosmic views, inquiry into film figures begins with disturbances in the experience of films themselves, posing questions of the relation between the dead past and the living future in film story-telling. By breaking the façade of the continuing present through self-questioning, we open films to their figural dimensions in the counter-movement of drive as negentropic resistance. Following the back-movement of drive switches our perception to the figural register in which characters become figures probing blindly for what the film will have been in another time - a time yet to be lived. By following the anterior possibilities of this other time, we open films to the archival future in which a new future comes forth. This book provides theoretical and analytical concepts as well as strategies for taking a step into this future, guided by questions of the right path to take given the relativity of views in which the film can be experienced. Films analysed include Murnau's The Last Laugh, Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, Hitchcock's Rear Window, Welles's The Lady from Shanghai, Fellini's Intervista, Antonioni's L'Eclisse, Bresson's Une Femme Douce, and Zeller's The Father.

Contents:

Introduction: Toward Negentropic Film Analysis 1. Organology 2. Duration 3. Dreaming 4. Anamnesis/Hypomnesis 5. Cinematic Time 6. Endgame Conclusion Bibliography Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781501361234

1501361236

9781501361227

1501361228

OCLC:

1409701093