Film As Thought Experiment
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Köp båda 2 för 769 krAccessible 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. * Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media * Constitutes an interdisciplinary epistemological and philosophical map, a challenging and precious tool to register, draw and address the complex socio-political dynamics of our time with a critical and experimental spirit ... [An] essential text (a must read for these dangerous times). * New Review of Film and Television Studies * Not only a rich exploration of the relationship between film and philosophy, European Cinema and Continental Philosophy makes a timely claim on the stakes of thinking Europe today. Elsaesser provides a new and urgently needed framework for grappling with the contemporary conditions of European politics and film culture. * Rosalind Galt, Professor of Film Studies, Kings College London, UK * Elsaesser argues for a contemporary European cinema of openness and multiplicity, for a cinema that foregrounds autonomy and liberation. These arguments are backed up by an impressive account of contemporary European philosophy and its influences on cinematic thought. Elsaesser develops the key notions of a cinema of abjection and post-heroic narratives and, as a result, he charts an impressive map of European cinema and a European politics to come. * Richard Rushton, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Lancaster University, UK * European Cinema and Continental Philosophy offers an important and deeply engaging reappraisal of the status of European cinema at a moment of apparent crisis. There is both defiance and brilliance in the way that Elsaesser, situating cinema in its wider philosophical, political, social, and cultural contexts, seizes upon its perceived marginality and irrelevance as the key to its strength, and presents the widespread abjection he identifies, as evidence of creative freedom and the embodiment of Europes core Enlightenment values. This volume combines daring originality with the impressive scholarship we have come to expect from Thomas Elsaesser. It is a work of major significance which will have a profound impact upon contemporary and future film studies. * Wendy Everett, Professor Emeritus, University of Bath, UK *
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).
Table of Contents Chapter 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 Experiment Chapter 4: Europe A Thought Experiment Chapter 5: A Cinema of Abjection? Chapter 6: Post-heroic Narratives and the Community-to-Come Chapter 7: Claire Denis, Jean-Luc Nancy and Beau Travail Chapter 8: Hitting Bottom: Aki Kaurismki and the Abject Subject: The Man Without A Past Chapter 9: Experimenting with Death in Life Fatih Akin and the Ethical Turn Chapter 10: Black Suns and a Bright Planet: Lars von Triers Melancholia as Thought Experiment Chapter 11: Anatomy Lesson of A Vanished Country: Christian Petzolds Barbara Chapter 12: Control, Creative Constraints and Self Contradiction: The Global Auteur Bibliography Filmography Index