Overview

Assembling leading scholars from across the globe, Film as Philosophy presents research that leads film studies and philosophy into a productive dialogue. A major step toward establishing a media philosophy that puts the status, role, and function of film into a new perspective, this book removes representational techniques from the center of inquiry, replacing these with the medium's ability to ""think."" 

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Author:   Bernd Herzogenrath
Publisher:   University of Minnesota Press
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9781517900502

ISBN 10:   1517900506
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   21 March 2017
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Contents Introduction. Film and/as Philosophy: An Elective Affinity? Bernd Herzogenrath 1. Striking Poses: Gesture, Image, and Remake in the Cinematic Bergson John Ó Maoilearca 2. Hugo Münsterberg, Film, and Philosophy Robert Sinnerbrink 3. Different, Even Wholly Irrational Arguments: The Film-Philosophy of Béla Balázs Adrian Martin 4. This is Your Brain on Cinema: Antonin Artaud Gregory Flaxman 5. From Lyrosophy to “Anti-Philosophy”: The Thought of Cinema in Jean Epstein Christophe Wall-Romana 6. Montage Eisenstein: Mind the Gap Julia Vassilieva 7. André Bazin’s Film Theory and the History of Ideas Angela Dalle Vacche 8. Strange Topologics: Deleuze Takes a Ride Down David Lynch’s Lost Highway Bernd Herzogenrath 9. Hurray for Hollywood: Philosophy and Cinema According to Stanley Cavell Elisabeth Bronfen 10. Thinking Cinema with Alain Badiou Alex Ling 11. Thinking as Feast: Raymonde Carasco Nicole Brenez 12. Rancière’s Film Theory as Deviation Tom Conley 13. Movie-Made Philosophy Noël Carroll 14. “Not Time’s Fool”: Marriage as an Ethical Relationship in Michael Haneke’s Amour Thomas E. Wartenberg 15. Experience and Explanation in the Cinema Murray Smith Acknowledgments Contributors Index

Reviews

The essays in this superb collection show how contradictory and even imaginary the field is. Highly recommended. -CHOICE Film As Philosophy offers the reader a productive set of ideas for navigating today's post-everything landscape. -Leonardo This is a dense but very instructive volume for both novice and knowledgeable readers interested in the relation of film and philosophy. These essays offer a comprehensive range of theoretical accounts and genealogies that explore the film-philosophy encounter as one that elicits fruitful and open possibilities of thought. -European Journal of American Studies

The essays in this superb collection show how contradictory and even imaginary the field is. Highly recommended. --CHOICE Film As Philosophy offers the reader a productive set of ideas for navigating today's post-everything landscape. --Leonardo

The essays in this superb collection show how contradictory and even imaginary the field is. Highly recommended. -CHOICE Film As Philosophy offers the reader a productive set of ideas for navigating today's post-everything landscape. -Leonardo

Author Information

Bernd Herzogenrath is professor of American literature and culture at Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is the author of An Art of Desire: Reading Paul Auster and An American Body Politic: A Deleuzian Approach.

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