Film consciousness : from phenomenology to Deleuze / Spencer Shaw.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shaw, Spencer, 1945- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Deleuze, Gilles, 1925-1995.

Deleuze, Gilles.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Phenomenology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (229 p.)

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, North Carolina ; London, [England] : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The notion of film consciousness is one that has played around various film and philosophical discourses without ever really surfacing as a cogent theory. Representing the first major expression of film consciousness as a tangible concept, this critical study revisits notions of memory, retentional consciousness, narrative expectation, and spatio-temporal perception while also analyzing several major films. The first half of the book focuses on understanding the elements of the film experience--and its associated consciousness--through the descriptive tools of phenomenology. The second part de

Contents:

Cover; Acknowledgments; Contents; Preface ; Introduction; 1. Phenomenology and Film; Origins; The Spectrum of Film Consciousness; Dialectic Misgivings; 2. Phenomenological Grounding; Realist Theory; Real to Reel; Lifeworld Encounters; Intentionality ; Phenomenological Hermeneutics; Gadamer's Play; 3. Body and Transcendence; Merleau-Ponty's Embodiment; Expression to Meaning; Bazin's Ontology; The Negating Self; Transcendental Survival ; 4. Reel Time; Temporal Objectivities; Self-Constituting Flux ; Internal Time-Consciousness; Future Expectation; Bergson: Movement and Intermediate Imagery

Reelising MemoryBridging Gaps; 5. Walter Benjamin: The New Realm of Film Consciousness; Materialism and Allegory; Dialectical Images ; Mechanical Reproduction and Aura; Returning the Gaze: Aura Transformed; Benjamin and Surrealism ; Distraction and Innervation; 6. Deleuze and Cinema; Montage and Movement-Image; Eisenstein Montage; Imaging Thought Process; Affectivity and the Interval; Vertov and the Machinic; Liquid Subjectivity; 7. Marking Time; Thinking Otherwise; Forks of Time; Aberrance and Problem Ideas ; The Split Self; Time Out-of-Joint; Film Events ; Outside of Film; Chapter Notes

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Notes:

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4766-1097-5