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Cinematic Thinking: Philosophical Approaches to the New Cinema

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Description for Cinematic Thinking: Philosophical Approaches to the New Cinema Paperback. This anthology of philosophical essays explores the interpersonal and political contexts in and against which the films of ten major postwar filmmakers were made. Editor(s): Phillips, James. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: APFA; HP. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 11. Weight in Grams: 290.

Each essay in Cinematic Thinking is organized around an interpretation of a postwar filmmaker and the philosophical issues his or her work raises. The filmmakers covered are Alfred Hitchcock, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Altman, Carlos Saura, Glauber Rocha, Margarethe von Trotta, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, and Claire Denis. As the authors collected here are philosophers, rather than film critics, the volume approaches its subjects with a different set of interests and commitments from the bulk of works in film theory. Memory, judgment, subjectivity, terrorism, feminism, desire, race relations, experience, the work of mourning, and utopia are among the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804758017
SKU
V9780804758017
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99-50

About James Phillips
James Phillips is an Australian Research Council Fellow in the School of Philosophy and History at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry (Stanford, 2005) and The Equivocation of Reason: Kleist Reading Kant (Stanford, 2007).

Reviews for Cinematic Thinking: Philosophical Approaches to the New Cinema
"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 "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 ... Read more

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