Acinemas

Lyotard's Philosophy of Film

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Beskrivning

This collection presents, for the first time in English, Jean-Francois Lyotard's major essays on film: 'Acinema', 'The Unconscious as Mise-en-scene', 'Two Metamorphoses of the Seductive in Cinema' and 'The Idea of a Sovereign Film'. Then, eight critical essays by philosophers and film theorists examine Lyotard's film work and influence across two sections: 'Approaches and Interpretations' and 'Applications and Extensions'. These works are complemented by an introductory essay by leading French scholar Jean-Michel Durafour on Lyotard's film-philosophy, an overview of Lyotard's practical film projects written by his collaborators Claudine Eizykman and Guy Fihman, and the synopsis for a later film project Memorial Immemorial, which Lyotard proposed but was not produced. Jean-Francois Lyotard was the most significant aesthetician of the poststructuralist generation, but this dimension of his thought is only recently beginning to receive the attention it deserves in the English-speaking world. He devoted a number of essays to film, and was involved in making several experimental short films. Lyotard's reflections on film offer a perspective which seeks to do justice to it as an art by focusing on its aesthetic, material qualities. His work in this area remains a largely untapped resource, with the potential for inaugurating exciting new directions in film-philosophy.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2017-09-30
Mått:138 x 216 x 13 mm
Vikt:380 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:312
Förlag:Edinburgh University Press
ISBN:9781474418942

Utforska kategorier

Europas historia inom Historia och arkeologi
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Graham Jones is Lecturer in Creative Writing, Literary Studies and Media and Communications at Monash University, Australia. Ashley Woodward is Lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Dundee and is a founding member of the Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy.

Recensioner i media

Acinemas serves its purpose admirably: to prompt further thinking about Lyotard and film, and to offer some stimulating resources for so doing.

Innehållsförteckning

ForewordSusana Viegas and James Williams Editor’s IntroductionGraham Jones and Ashley WoodwardCinema Lyotard: An IntroductionJean-Michel Durafour LYOTARD’S ESSAYS ON FILMAcinemaThe Unconscious as Mise-en-scèneTwo Metamorphoses of the Seductive in Cinema The Idea of a Sovereign Film APPROACHES AND INTERPRETATIONSImaginary Constructs? A Libidinal Economy of the Cinematographic MediumJulie GaillardLyotard, Gorgias and the Art of SeductionKeith CromeAuthorisation: Lyotard’s Sovereign ImagePeter W. MilneAPPLICATIONS AND EXTENTIONSDiscourse, Figure, Suture: Lyotard and Cinematic SpaceJon HackettOn Dialogue as Performative Art CriticismVlad IonescuGive Me a Sign: An Anxious Exploration of Performance on Film, Under Lyotard’s ShadowKiff BamfordHow Desire Works: A Lyotardian LynchGraham Jones and Ashley WoodwardAberrant Movement and Somatography in the Hysterical Films of Roméo BosettiLisa TrahairAPPENDICES1. Lyotard’s Film WorkClaudine Eizykman and Guy Fihman2. Memorial ImmemorialJean-François Lyotard3. Lyotard Filmography4. BibliographyIndex