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Book SynopsisThis anthology of philosophical essays explores the interpersonal and political contexts in and against which the films of ten major postwar filmmakers were made.
Trade Review"The quality of the writing is uniformly excellent, and all of the contributors focus on philosophical theories that are germane to the films of the director in question." —
CHOICE"It's a gala event whenever a group of committed philosophers, particularly ones as innovative as these, collectively writes about film. The unusual liveliness of this indispensable volume arises in part from the fact that these philosophers, in writing about a broad swathe of important cinema from the 1960's to the present, necessarily step into the role of critics, as writers including Benjamin, Barthes, and Blanchot defined this vocation. The collective authors of this useful as well as inspiring book rise to the multifaceted challenges of interdisciplinary cultural critique." -- Henry Sussman
"Finally! Useful and intelligent film theory! This collection is a careful and serious negotiation between philosophy and the metaphysical and conceptual worlds produced by the cinema." -- Felicity Colman * University of Melbourne *
Table of Contents@fmct:Contents @toc4:Contributors iii @toc2:Introduction: What Can Cinema Do? @tocca:James Phillips 000 @toc2:1 Alfred Hitchcock: Fowl Play and the Domestication of Horror @tocca:Kelly Oliver 000 @toc2:2 Luchino Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood @tocca:Alexander Garc!a D'ttmann 000 @toc2:3 Michelangelo Antonioni: The Aestheticization of Time and Experience in The Passenger @tocca:Alison Ross 000 @toc2:4 Robert Altman: The West as Countermemory @tocca:Michael J. Shapiro 000 @toc2:5 Carlos Saura: Cinematic Poiesis @tocca:Krzysztof Ziarek 000 @toc2:6 Glauber Rocha: Hunger and Garbage @tocca:James Phillips 000 @toc2:7 Margarethe von Trotta: Leviathan in Germany @tocca:Cecilia Sj'holm 000 @toc2:8 Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The Subject of Film @tocca:Andrew J. Mitchell 000 @toc2:9 Wim Wenders: The Role of Memory @tocca:Jeff Malpas 000 @toc2:10 Claire Denis: Icon of Ferocity @tocca:Jean-Luc Nancy 000 @toc4:Notes 000 Index 000
