The Cinema, Or, The Imaginary Man
Author: Edgar Morin
Publisher:
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780816640386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA classic work that explores the nexus of the cinematic image and the human mind - at last available in English!
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Cinema is a dream
Author: Andrea Rabbito
Publisher: Mimesis
Published: 2017-05-30T00:00:00+02:00
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 8869771148
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe emergence and spread of new images – photography, film, television and audiovisual – have brought about an important epistemological revolution that has encouraged contemporary man to have a new attitude of confidence not only towards the image but also to reality. The modern knowledge that exploded man’s certainties into hundreds of relative truths has been removed. The perfect doubling of reality offered by the new media has quietly eliminated doubt about the faithful restitution of reality into images, and, consequently, into the events of the outside world. Opposing this credulity, this mental breakdown as Joseph Conrad called it, we will need to recover the principles and themes of modern thought that came into existence in the Seventeenth century. This recovery will serve not only to oppose illusions and deceits, but also to understand the nature of the new images better.
Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film
Author: Steven Rybin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 0739166751
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs the director of Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, and The New World, Terrence Malick has created a remarkable body of work that enables imaginative acts of philosophical interpretation. Steven Rybin's Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film looks closely at the dialogue between Malick's films and our powers of thinking, showing how his work casts the philosophy of thinkers such as Stanley Cavell, Martin Heidegger, Walter Benjamin, Andr Bazin, Edgar Morin, and Immanuel Kant in new cinematic light. With a special focus on how the voices of Malick's characters move us to thought, Terrence Malick and the Thought of Film offers new readings of his films and places Malick's work in the context of recent debates in the interdisciplinary field of film and philosophy. Rybin also provides a postscript on Malick's recently-released fifth film, The Tree of Life.
The Soul of Film Theory
Author: S. Cooper
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-05-30
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1137328584
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this innovative book, Sarah Cooper revisits the history of film theory in order to bring to the fore the neglected concept of the soul and to trace its changing fortunes. The Soul of Film Theory charts the legacy of this multi-faceted, contested term, from the classical to the contemporary era.
Psychoanalysis and Cinema: the Imaginary Signifier
Author: Christian Metz
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 1983-06-18
Total Pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780333366400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheorizing World Cinema
Author: Lúcia Nagib
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2011-11-30
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0857721046
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis innovative book is about the place of world cinema in the cultural imaginary. It also repositions world cinema in a wider discursive space than is usually the case and treats it as an object of theoretical enquiry, rather than as a commercial label. The editors and distinguished group of contributors offer a range of approaches and case studies whose organizing principle is the developing idea of polycentrism as applied to cinema. They refine and redefine key concepts in film studies, including identification and identity, narrative and realism, allegory and the national project, auteurism and the popular, art and genre. They re-evaluate how cinema shapes and responds to the philosophical, cultural and political effects of transnationalism and cosmopolitanism in the age of the moving image, and explore the interconnectedness of films produced worldwide, as well as the links between cinema and other visual cultural forms. The contributors include: John Caughie, Felicia Chan, Tiago de Luca, Rajinder Dudrah, Song Hwee Lim, Laura Mulvey, Lucia Nagib, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, Chris Perriam, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, Paul Julian Smith, and Ismail Xavier.
Roland Barthes' Cinema
Author: Philip Watts
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016-03-04
Total Pages: 217
ISBN-13: 0190277564
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe most famous name in French literary circles from the late 1950s till his death in 1981, Roland Barthes maintained a contradictory rapport with the cinema. As a cultural critic, he warned of its surreptitious ability to lead the enthralled spectator toward an acceptance of a pre-given world. As a leftist, he understood that spectacle could be turned against itself and provoke deep questioning of that pre-given world. And as an extraordinarily sensitive human being, he relished the beauty of images and the community they could bring together.
Audience Effect
Author: Julian Hanich
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2017-09-26
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1474414974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKShows how the interactive, confrontational practice of courtly arts shaped imperial thought in the Middle Ages
The Empathic Screen
Author: Vittorio Gallese
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2019-10-02
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 0192512072
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy do people go to the movies? What does it mean to watch a movie? To what extent is the perceived fictional nature of movies different from our daily perception of the real world? We live in a time where the power of images has strongly invaded our everyday life, and we need new instruments and methods to better understand our relationship with the virtual worlds we inhabit every day. Taking cinema as the beginning of our relationship with the world of moving images, and cognitive neuroscience as a paradigm to understand how the images engage us, The Empathic Screen develops a new theory of film experience, exploring our brain-body interaction when engaging with and watching a film. In this book, film theory and neuroscience meet to shed new light on cinema masterpieces, such as The Shining, The Silence of the Lambs, and Toy Story, and explore the great directors from the classical period to the present. Taking a radical new approach to understanding the cinema, the book will be fascinating reading for cognitive scientists, neuroscientists, psychologists, philosophers, and film and media scholars.
A Companion to Early Cinema
Author: André Gaudreault
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2012-07-02
Total Pages: 660
ISBN-13: 1444332317
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn authoritative and much-needed overview of the main issues in the field of early cinema from over 30 leading international scholars in the field First collection of its kind to offer in one reference: original theory, new research, and reviews of existing studies in the field Features over 30 original essays from some of the leading scholars in early cinema and Film Studies, including Tom Gunning, Jane Gaines, Richard Abel, Thomas Elsaesser, and André Gaudreault Caters to renewed interest in film studies’ historical methods, with strict analysis of multiple and competing sources, providing a critical re-contextualization of films, printed material and technologies Covers a range of topics in early cinema, such as exhibition, promotion, industry, pre-cinema, and film criticism Broaches the latest research on the subject of archival practices, important particularly in the current digital context
