Real of Reality: The Realist Turn in Contemporary Film Theory

Christine Reeh-Peters, Ph.D., University of Lisbon, is Junior-Professor at the Film University Babelsberg in Potsdam, a film director and philosopher. She has published several articles on film philosophy as well as the monograph Being and Film: a Fictive Ontology of Film in Tarkovsky’s Solaris (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021).Peter Weibel, double Ph.D. h.c., University of Art and Design Helsinki, and University of Pécs, Hungary, is CEO of the ZKM | Centre for Art and Media Karlsruhe. He is an acclaimed media artist, curator and media theorist, as well as editor and author of several monographs and articles.Stefan W. Schmidt, Ph.D., University of Wuppertal, lecturer of Philosophy at the same University. He has published a monograph on Heidegger's concept of freedom (Springer, 2016) and several articles in phenomenology as well as philosophical aesthetics and philosophy of design.Contributors are: Atėnė Mendelytė, Maria-Teresa Teixeira, Thomas E. Wartenberg, Román Domínguez Jiménez, Ringo Rösener, Hanna Trindade, Karin Janker, Martin Stefanov, Zsolt Gyenge, Philip Freytag, Patricia Feise-Mahnkopf, Hyun Kang Kim, Markus Gabriel, Gusztáv Hámos, Christine Reeh-Peters, Stefan W. Schmidt, Peter Weibel.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsIntroductionChristine Reeh-Peters, Stefan W. Schmidt and Peter WeibelPART 1The Rise of the Real1 The Real in FilmThe Historical Real, the Optical Real, and the Material RealHyun Kang Kim2 The Being of FilmChristine Reeh-Peters3 What It Means to Imagine ImaginationThe Derrida–Searle Debate and the Poetic Ontology of FilmPhilip Freytag4 Emerging ImaginationsThe Relation of Film and Reality from a Literary PerspectiveKarin Janker5 Animated Visions of RealityThe Real as Experimental Aesthetic in Anca Damian’s Animated DocumentariesZsolt Gyenge6 Pasolini’s Pan-semiology or Reality as CodePeter WeibelPART 2Experiencing the Real7 The Cinematographic ExperienceThinking Cinema through the Philosophy of E. HusserlHanna Trindade8 Reality Narrated through timeAndrei Tarkovsky’s The MirrorStefan W. Schmidt9 Time and FilmMaria-Teresa Teixeira10 Mapping Film-World Relations to RealityA New Conceptual CartographyAtėnė Mendelytė11 The Crisis of the Time-ImageMontage in Postmodern TimesMartin Stefanov12 Think Future Cinema—with Photofilm as Its BasisGusztáv HámosPART 3The Real Unsettling13 The Bird’s Eye View—Ornithology and Ontology in Hitchcock’s The BirdsMarkus Gabriel14 A Rough Sketch on the Real of Terrorism—Thoughts on Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight TrilogyRingo Rösener15 Justifying a Philosophical ClaimThe Act of Killing and the Banality of EvilThomas E. Wartenberg16 Jauja and Meek’s CutoffThe Parallel American Ways of Rethinking Gilbert Simondon’s Role of Aesthetics in the Configuration of HumanityRomán Domínguez Jiménez17 Maya Deren’s Claim for the “Ritualistic” Film or Fusing the Sacred and the Profane for the Sake of the RealPatricia Feise-Mahnkopp