European Cinema and Continental Philosophy

Film As Thought Experiment

AvThomas Elsaesser,David Martin-Jones

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Winner of the Limina Award 2021This groundbreaking volume for the Thinking Cinema series focuses on the extent to which contemporary cinema contributes to political and philosophical thinking about the future of Europe's core Enlightenment values. In light of the challenges of globalization, multi-cultural communities and post-nation state democracy, the book interrogates the borders of ethics and politics and roots itself in debates about post-secular, post-Enlightenment philosophy. By defining a cinema that knows that it is no longer a competitor to Hollywood (i.e. the classic self-other construction), Elsaesser also thinks past the kind of self-exoticism or auto-ethnography that is the perpetual temptation of such a co-produced, multi-platform 'national cinema as world cinema'. Discussing key filmmakers and philosophers, like: Claire Denis and Jean-Luc Nancy; Aki Kaurismäki, abjection and Julia Kristeva; Michael Haneke, the paradoxes of Christianity and Slavoj Zizek; Fatih Akin, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière, Elsaesser is able to approach European cinema and assesses its key questions within a global context. His combination of political and philosophical thinking will surely ground the debate in film philosophy for years to come.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-11-29
Mått:152 x 229 x undefined mm
Vikt:644 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Thinking Cinema
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781441129499
Utmärkelser:Winner of Limina Award 2021 (UK)

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Thomas Elsaesser is Emeritus Professor at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and since 2013 Visiting Professor at Columbia University. European Cinema and Continental Philosophy further develops Elsaesser's approach to national and auteur cinema begun with Fassbinder's Germany: History Identity Subject (1996), continued with European Cinema - Face to Face with Hollywood (2005) and given a theoretical turn in Film Theory: An Introduction through the Senses (2010).

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Accessible and rigorous, brimming with indispensable insights for students, scholars, and readers of film studies, continental philosophy, visual culture, and media theory ... It is a rare pleasure to read a work of film-philosophy that so carefully balances textual hermeneutics and political deconstructions.

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Table of ContentsChapter 1: European Cinema into the 21st Century: Enlarging the Context?Chapter 2: Film as Thought: The ‘Film and Philosophy’ Debate Chapter 3: Film as Thought ExperimentChapter 4: “Europe” – A Thought ExperimentChapter 5: A Cinema of Abjection?Chapter 6: Post-heroic Narratives and the Community-to-ComeChapter 7: Claire Denis, Jean-Luc Nancy and Beau TravailChapter 8: Hitting Bottom: Aki Kaurismäki and the Abject Subject: The Man Without A PastChapter 9: “Experimenting with Death in Life” Fatih Akin and the Ethical TurnChapter 10: Black Suns and a Bright Planet: Lars von Trier’s Melancholia as Thought ExperimentChapter 11: Anatomy Lesson of A Vanished Country: Christian Petzold’s BarbaraChapter 12: Control, Creative Constraints and Self Contradiction: The Global AuteurBibliographyFilmographyIndex