The Continental Philosophy of Film Reader

Buch | Hardcover

680 Seiten

2018
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-4742-7569-9 (ISBN)

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The first collection of its kind, The Continental Philosophy of Film Reader is the essential anthology of writings by continental philosophers on cinema, representing the last century of film-making and thinking about film, as well as all of the major schools of Continental thought: phenomenology and existentialism, Marxism and critical theory, semiotics and hermeneutics, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism. Included here are not only the classic texts in continental philosophy of film, from Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” to extracts of Deleuze’s Cinema and Barthes’s Mythologies, but also the earliest works of Continental philosophy of film, from thinkers such as Georg Lukács, and little-read gems by philosophical giants such as Sartre and Beauvoir.

The book demonstrates both the philosophical significance of these thinkers’ ideas about film, as well their influence on filmmakers in Europe and across the globe. In addition, however, this wide-ranging collection also teaches us how important film is to the last century of European philosophical thought. Almost every major continental European thinker of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has had something to say—sometimes, quite a lot to say—about cinema: as an art form, as a social or political phenomenon, as a linguistic device and conveyor of information, as a projection of our fears and desires, as a site for oppression and resistance, or as a model on the basis of which some of us, at least, learn how to live.

Purpose built for classroom use, with pedagogical features introducing and contextualizing the extracts, this reader is an indispensable tool for students and researchers in philosophy of film, film studies and the history of cinema.

Joseph Westfall is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Houston-Downtown, USA. He is the author of The Kierkegaardian Author (2007), co-editor of the forthcoming Foucault and Nietzsche (Bloomsbury 2017) and has written numerous articles and book chapters on topics in Continental philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophies of literature and film.

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Section I: Foundations

Chapter 1 Ricciotto Canudo
The Birth of the Sixth Art (1911)
Chapter 2 Georg Lukács
Thoughts on an Aesthetics of Cinema (1913)
Chapter 3 Hugo Münsterberg
The Means and Function of the Photoplay (1916)
Chapter 4 Rudolf Arnheim
Sound Film (1928-1932)
Chapter 5 André Bazin
The Ontology of the Photographic Image (1945)
Chapter 6 Jean Epstein
Mechanical Philosophy (1946)
Chapter 7 Béla Balázs
Theory of the Film (1948)
Chapter 8 Roland Barthes
The Romans in Films (1957)
Garbo’s Face (1957)
Lost Continent (1957)

Section II: Phenomenology and Existentialism

Chapter 9 Jean-Paul Sartre
Motion Picture Art (1931)
Chapter 10 André Malraux
Sketch for a Psychology of the Moving Pictures (1940)
Chapter 11 Roman Ingarden
The Film (1961)
Chapter 12 Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The Film and the New Psychology (1964)
Chapter 13 Jean Louis Schefer
The Ordinary Man of the Cinema (1980)
Chapter 14 Serge Daney
The Tracking Shot in Kapo (1992)
Chapter 15 Daniel Frampton
Filmosophy (2006)

Section III: Marxism and Critical Theory

Chapter 16 Siegfried Kracauer
Cult of Distraction: On Berlin’s Picture Palaces (1926)
Chapter 17 Sergei Eisenstein
A Dialectic Approach to Film Form (1931)
Chapter 18 Walter Benjamin
The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1939)
Chapter 19 Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno
The Culture Industry: Enlightenment as Mass Deception (1944)
Chapter 20 Theodor W. Adorno
Transparencies on Film (1966)
Chapter 21 Jacques Rancière
A Thwarted Fable (2001)

Section IV: Psychology and Psychoanalysis

Chapter 22 Jean Mitry
The Psychology of Montage (1963)
Chapter 23 Jean-Louis Baudry
Ideological Effects of the Basic Cinematographic Apparatus (1970)
Chapter 24 Félix Guattari
A Cinema of Desire (1973)
The Poor Man’s Couch (1975)
Chapter 25 Julia Kristeva
Fantasy and Cinema (1997)
Chapter 26 Slavoj Žižek
The Strange Case of the Missing Lacanians (2001)

Section V: Feminism and Gender Studies

Chapter 27 Simone de Beauvoir
Brigitte Bardot and the Lolita Syndrome (1959)
Chapter 28 Laura Mulvey
Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975)
Chapter 29 Teresa de Lauretis
Through the Looking-Glass: Women, Cinema, and Language (1984)
Chapter 30 Judith Butler
Gender is Burning (1993)
Chapter 31 Judith Halberstam
The Transgender Look (2005)
Chapter 32 Tina Chanter
Concluding Reflections on the Necrophilia of Fetishism (2008)
Chapter 33 Drucilla Cornell
Shooting Eastwood (2009)

Section VI: Postmodernism
Chapter 34 Edgar Morin
The Semi-imaginary Reality of Man (1956)
Chapter 35 Monique Wittig
Lacunary Films (1966)
Chapter 36 Jean-François Lyotard
Acinema (1973)
Chapter 37 Michel Foucault
Film and Popular Memory (1974)
Chapter 38 Jean Baudrillard
History: A Retro Scenario (1981)
Chapter 39 Paul Virilio
The Imposture of Immediacy (1984)
Sicut Prior est Tempore ita quo Potio Iure (1984)
Chapter 40 Gilles Deleuze
The Time-Image (1985)
Chapter 41 Giorgio Agamben
Notes on Gesture (1992)
Chapter 42 Jean-Luc Nancy
On Evidence: Life and Nothing More, by Abbas Kiarostami (1995)
Chapter 43 Alain Badiou
The False Movements of Cinema (1998)
Chapter 44 Jacques Derrida
Cinema and Its Ghosts (2000)
Chapter 45 Bernard Stiegler
Cinematic Time (2001)

Epilogue Giorgio Agamben
The Six Most Beautiful Minutes in the History of Cinema (2005)

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.02.2018
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Gewicht	1275 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4742-7569-9 / 1474275699
ISBN-13	978-1-4742-7569-9 / 9781474275699
Zustand	Neuware