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Book SynopsisEuropean 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 political potential of European film theory.
Trade Review'The essays in European Film Theory provide a long overdue critical remapping of what has been called 'theory' in contemporary film studies. No philosophical stone goes unturned in this remarkable volume, and many are then sculpted into provocative and original arguments.' - D.N. Rodowick, Harvard University, USA
'A key resource for film theory... A richly detailed volume in every respect, the text is distinguished by its scope, the sweep of its rhetoric, and the numerous films it examines... Highly recommended.' - CHOICE
Table of ContentsIntroduction: That Perpetually Obscure Object of Theory
Part One: European Film Theory
1. European Film Theory: From Crypto-Nationalism to Trans-Nationalism, Paul Coates
2. The Aesthetics of Race in European Film Theory, Tobias Nagl
3. The Disunity of Film Theory and the Disunity of Aesthetics, Casey Haskins
4. Real Location, Fantasy Space, Performative Place: Double Occupancy and Mutual Interference in European Cinema, Thomas Elsaesser
Part Two: Film and Philosophy
5. Film as Philosophy: A Mission Impossible?, John Mullarkey
6. Platonic Reconstruction and Residual Kantianism in Film Theory, Colin Burnett
7. Epstein, Bergson, and Vision, Malcolm Turvey
8. Heidegger and Cinema, Brian Price
9. Listening and Touching, Looking and Thinking: The Dialogue in Philosophy and Film between Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis, Douglas Morrey
Part Three: Politics, History, Ideology and Film Theory
10. Fabulation and Contradiction: Jacques Ranciere on Cinema, Tom Conley
11. The Gaze of Biocinema, A. Kiarina Kordela
12. From Cinema to History: Kracauer's Shifting Philosophical Historiography, Scott MacKenzie
13. Disposition: From Film Theory to Human Action, Astrid Oesmann
Part Four: Aesthetics and Film Theory
14. Between the Ornament and the Corpse: Adolf Loos and Classical Film Theory, Rosalind Galt
15. Baroque Dialectics or Dialectical Baroque: Sergei Eisenstein in/on Mexico, Masha Salazkina
16. A Screen for Projection: Ricciotto Canudo's Exponential Aesthetics and the Parisian Avant-Gardes, Ara H. Merjian
17. Synaesthesia in Film Theory, Sabine Doran
Part Five: Realism Revisited
18. Innocence and Ontology: The Truthfulness of Andre Bazin, Lisabeth During
19. From Distraction to Indeterminancy to Distraction: Kracauer and Contemporary Film Realist Discourse, Temenuga Trifonova
20. National Identity and Realism in Postwar Itlaian Film and Film Theory, Ora Gelley
21. Neorealism at a Distance, Karl Schoonover
Appendix: Teaching Aid
Contributors
Index
