Overview

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 develops the idea of film consciousness as a unique vision of the world and as a large element in the human understanding of reality. Throughout the work, the author combines the ideas of philosophers and film theorists from phenomenology--such as Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Bazin, and Kracauer--with the postmodernist work of Deleuze and transitional theorists Bergson and Benjamin.

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Author:   Spencer Shaw
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.308kg
ISBN:  

9780786433346

ISBN 10:   0786433345
Pages:   227
Publication Date:   11 March 2008
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Acknowledgments      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 Memory      Bridging 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      Bibliography      Index     

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Author Information

Spencer Shaw is a lecturer (of rhetoric and negotiations) at the International Copenhagen Business School and Open University. He lives in Copenhagen.

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