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ACINEMAS
LYOTARD'S PHILOSOPHY OF FILM |
| By: |
Graham Jones, Ashley Woodward |
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Electronic book text |
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| ISBN 10: |
1474418945 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781474418942 |
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| Publisher: |
EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
30 September, 2017 |
| Series: |
New History of Scotland |
| Pages: |
312 |
| Description: |
This collection presents, for the first time in English, all of Lyotard s major essays on film, an introductory essay by the leading French scholar on Lyotard s film-philosophy, an overview of Lyotard s practical film projects written by his collaborators, and a selection of critical essays by philosophers and film theorists. |
| Synopsis: |
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. |
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24 B/W illustrations |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Edinburgh University Press |
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