Description
Book SynopsisPhilosophers 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 introduced by the editor, Christopher Kul-Want, who places the philosophers within a historical and intellectual framework.
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Philosophers on Film is an important collection, especially for students first breaking into film studies or scholars who desire quick reference to diverse groundbreaking texts. -- ANDREW KETTLER, University of South Carolina * Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television *
The contemporary philosophers included in this anthology have been prominent in Anglophone discourse in the humanities over the last twenty years, yet their contributions to film theory have not been addressed in a systematic fashion.
Philosophers on Film from Bergson to Badiou offers a coherent framework for approaching this diverse group of philosophers, and the summaries of the arguments of the individual selections are informed, accurate, and accessible. This anthology promises to serve an important function in cinema studies. -- Ronald Bogue, University of Georgia
An essential collection that gathers the most important works, both classical and contemporary, on film and philosophy. It covers all of the field’s complex configurations from the continental tradition: philosophy of film, philosophy in film, as well as film as philosophy. No serious film philosopher will be able to leave home without it. -- John Ó Maoilearca, Kingston University, London
This important and comprehensive collection offers a complex and carefully chosen series of texts that set out the difficult and urgent relations between film and philosophy, as well as between popular cultures and critical thinking over the last century. Christopher Kul-Want's introduction is a subtle and definitive guide through these crucial issues of modern culture that will enable the reader to find their own place among them. -- Adrian Rifkin, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. Creative Evolution, by Henri Bergson
2. The Work of Art in the Age of Its Technological Reproducibility, by Walter Benjamin
3. The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception, by Theodor W. Adorno and Max Horkheimer
4. The Film and the New Psychology, by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
5. On Contemporary Alienation or the End of the Pact with the Devil, by Jean Baudrillard
6. The Looking Glass, from the Other Side, by Luce Irigaray
7. Acinema, by Jean-François Lyotard
8. Cinema I: The Movement-Image, by Gilles Deleuze
9. Cinema II: The Time-Image, by Gilles Deleuze
10. The Malady of Grief: Duras, by Julia Kristeva
11. Notes on Gesture, by Giorgio Agamben
12. “In His Bold Gaze My Ruin Is Writ Large”, by Slavoj Žižek
13. And Life Goes On: Life and Nothing More, by Jean-Luc Nancy
14. Contesting Tears, the Hollywood Melodrama of the Unknown Woman, by Stanley Cavell
15. From One Manhunt to Another: Fritz Lang Between Two Ages, by Jacques Rancière
16. Cinema as Philosophical Experimentation, by Alain Badiou
17. Cinematic Time, by Bernard Stiegler
18. The Miracle of Analogy: or, The History of Photography, Part 1, by Kaja Silverman
Selected Bibliography
Index
