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Philosophical Theories of Political Cinema

Author : Angelo Emanuele Cioffi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000468658
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Book Synopsis Philosophical Theories of Political Cinema by : Angelo Emanuele Cioffi

Download or read book Philosophical Theories of Political Cinema written by Angelo Emanuele Cioffi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-10-31 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book utilizes philosophical tools to build up a framework for the classification, analysis and assessment of political cinema. The author first maps the category of political cinema, clarifying what it means for a film to be ‘political’, and then analyzes the relation between the value of a film as a political film and its value as art. Through philosophical enquiry, Angelo Emanuele Cioffi builds up a framework that could be of use in art-critical practice and that can help with the classification and assessment of political films. Grounded in analytic philosophy of art and cognitivist film theory, with insights from political science, political philosophy, epistemology and cognitive science, the book presents a unique analysis of the relation between films and the ‘political’. This theory is tested with detailed case studies, and the author uses specific films as examples of the applicability and explanatory power of this theoretical framework. As such, this book will be of interest not just to film studies, film theory and political philosophy scholars, but to anyone with an interest in political film, aesthetic practice and philosophy of art.

Cinema/Politics/Philosophy

Author : Nico Baumbach
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231545371
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Cinema/Politics/Philosophy written by Nico Baumbach and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-30 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost fifty years ago, Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni published the manifesto “Cinema/Ideology/Criticism,” helping to set the agenda for a generation of film theory that used cinema as a means of critiquing capitalist ideology. In recent decades, film studies has moved away from politicized theory, abandoning the productive ways in which theory understands the relationship between cinema, politics, and art. In Cinema/Politics/Philosophy, Nico Baumbach revisits the much-maligned tradition of seventies film theory to reconsider: What does it mean to call cinema political? In this concise and provocative book, Baumbach argues that we need a new philosophical approach that sees cinema as both a mode of thought and a form of politics. Through close readings of the writings on cinema by the contemporary continental philosophers Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou, and Giorgio Agamben, he asks us to rethink both the legacy of ideology critique and Deleuzian film-philosophy. He explores how cinema can condition philosophy through its own means, challenging received ideas about what is seeable, sayable, and doable. Cinema/Politics/Philosophy offers fundamental new ways to think about cinema as thought, art, and politics.

Political Philosophy in Motion *.mkv

Author : Dan Dungaciu
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527526364
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)

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Download or read book Political Philosophy in Motion *.mkv written by Dan Dungaciu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book approaches the visual clues acknowledged by political philosophy, interested in the relationship of the philosophy and the politics of film. It also expresses and highlights a precise way of “looking at things”, indicating a frame able to verify the domain’s themes and constructs, in order not only to offer some illustrating insights, but also to provide reflections able to re-define the relationship between film and political philosophy. It will appeal to the wider academic community, PhD students, professors, and researchers with an interest in political philosophy, postmodern philosophy, media studies and cultural studies.

Popular Cinema as Political Theory

Author : J. Nelson
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137373865
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Popular Cinema as Political Theory written by J. Nelson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book presents cinematic case studies in political realism versus political idealism, demonstrating methods of viewing popular cinema as political theory. The book appreciates political myth-making in popular genres as especially practical and accessible theorizing about politics.

Cinema Pessimism

Author : Joshua Foa Dienstag
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190067748
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Cinema Pessimism written by Joshua Foa Dienstag and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-04 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aesthetic and political representation are often treated separately, but this book argues that film offers a unique perspective through which to understand the dangers to equality and freedom that lurk in representative politics. The potential problems of representative democracy have long been debated: does it cultivate apathy and discourage citizen participation? What does it mean to be faithfully or well represented in a democracy? And how can appropriate, meaningful representation be achieved? Here, these questions are addressed from a new perspective. Representation, Joshua Foa Dienstag argues, can create the illusion of freedom and reciprocity in place of the real thing, and in both cinema and politics, what gives us pleasure is not the same as what secures or supports our existence as free and equal citizens. As this book shows, there are political dangers not visible within the current debates around democratic representation, dangers we can better understand and help to minimize by considering the way that human beings interact, emotionally, with their filmic representations. Dienstag looks at a series of films that directly confront issues of representation (Her, Blade Runner, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Melancholia, and the Up documentary series) to diagnose these hazards and consider how best to respond to them. Each chapter looks at a specific film as emblematic of a different conception or problem of representation often ignored by mainstream political debates (such as reciprocity, happiness, boundaries, evil) to show that the relationship between representation and freedom is fraught with tension. This book continues Dienstag's earlier groundbreaking work on philosophical pessimism, understood not as something despairing, but as a rejection of the idea that these necessary tensions can be cured. Ultimately, Dienstag seeks to defend a kind of pessimistic politics that might produce a better sort of democratic representation than what we have today.

Film, Theory and Philosophy

Author : Felicity Colman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317492439
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book Film, Theory and Philosophy written by Felicity Colman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophy, and in particular continental philosophy, has provided a conceptual underpinning for cinema since its beginnings, especially in the development of cinematic aesthetics. In its turn, film has rethought the abstractions of space and time and the categories of sex and gender and has created new concepts which illuminate phenomenology, metaphysics and epistemology. "Film and Philosophy" brings together leading scholars to provide a detailed overview of the key thinkers who have shaped the field of film philosophy. The thinkers include continental and 'post-continental' philosophers, analytic philosophers, film-makers, film reviewers, sociologists, and cultural theorists.The essays reveal how philosophy can be applied to film analysis and how film can be used to illustrate philosophical problems. But more importantly, the essays explore how film has shaped what philosophy thinks and how philosophy has lead to a reappraisal of film. The book will prove an invaluable reference and guide to readers interested in a deeper understanding of the issues and insights presented by film philosophy." Film and Philosophy" includes essays on: Hugo Munsterberg, Vilem Flusser, Siegfried Kracauer, Theodor Adorno, Antonin Artaud, Henri Bergson, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emmanuel Levinas, Andre Bazin, Roland Barthes, Serge Daney, Jean-Luc Godard, Stanley Cavell, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Derrida, Gilles Deleuze, Sarah Kofman, Paul Virilio, Jean Baudrillard, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Fredric Jameson, Felix Guattari, Raymond Bellour, Christian Metz, Julia Kristeva, Laura Mulvey, Homi Bhabha, Slavoj Zizek, Stephen Heath, Alain Badiou, Jacques Ranciere, Leo Bersani, Giorgio Agamben, and Michel Chion.

The Interplay Between Political Theory and Movies

Author : Ulrich Hamenstädt
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 331990731X
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Download or read book The Interplay Between Political Theory and Movies written by Ulrich Hamenstädt and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents essays and scientific contributions examining the link between popular media and politics. The essays focus on the question of how political and social change, concepts of power, and utopian elements are reflected in selected films and television series. The book applies a political science perspective, covering theories from political philosophy, political sociology and international relations, and examines a wide range of movies and TV series, such as The Godfather, Fight Club, The Walking Dead and Game of Thrones. It will appeal to anyone interested in studying how political ideas, concepts and messages can be illustrated and visualized using the complex media of movies and TV series.

Political Theory and Film

Author : Ian Fraser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 178348165X
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Political Theory and Film written by Ian Fraser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-01-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critically examines how radical political theory and its application to film analysis can provide insight to the aesthetic self during political upheaval and conflict

Cinematic Political Thought

Author : Michael Shapiro
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474472516
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Cinematic Political Thought written by Michael Shapiro and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has two aims: to offer a series of investigations into aspects of contemporary politics such as race, nation and gender; and to articulate a critical philosophical perspective with politically disposed treatments of contemporary cinema. What the author offers is a politics of critique, inspired by Kant, in which he attempts to show what it can mean to think the political. The interventions into aspects of contemporary political issues, as reflected in films including Hoop Dreams, Lonestar, Father of the Bride II , The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and To Live and Die in LA, are also influenced by Deleuze, Derrida, Foucault and Lyotard: theorists loosely regarded by the author as post-Kantian. This is a polemical work, aimed at encouraging critical, ethico-political thinking. Its breadth of theoretical scope and empirical reference, and the innovative style of presentation will make it vital reading for all those with an interest in the linking of culture and politics.

The Cinematic Political

Author : Michael J. Shapiro
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429947321
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Cinematic Political written by Michael J. Shapiro and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Michael J. Shapiro stages a series of pedagogical encounters between political theory, represented as a compositional challenge, and cinematic texts, emphasizing how to achieve an effective research paper/essay by heeding the compositional strategies of films. The text’s distinctiveness is its focus on the intermediation between two textual genres. It is aimed at providing both a conceptual introduction to the politics of aesthetics and a guide to writing strategies. In its illustrations of encounters between political theory and cinema, the book’s critical edge is its emphasis on how to intervene in cinematic texts with innovative conceptual frames in ways that challenge dominant understandings of life worlds. The Cinematic Political is designed as a teaching resource that introduces students to the relationship between film form and political thinking. With diverse illustrative investigations, the book instructs students on how to watch films with an eye toward writing a research paper in which a film (or set of films) constitutes the textual vehicle for political theorizing.

New Philosophies of Film

Author : Robert Sinnerbrink
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441153438
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Download or read book New Philosophies of Film written by Robert Sinnerbrink and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise but comprehensive student guide to studying Emily Bronte's classic novel Wuthering Heights. It covers adaptations such as film and TV versions of the novel and student-friendly features include discussion points and a comprehensive guide to further reading.

The Films of Lars von Trier and Philosophy

Author : José A. Haro
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030249182
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book The Films of Lars von Trier and Philosophy written by José A. Haro and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The films of Lars von Trier offer unique opportunities for thinking deeply about how Philosophy and Cinema speak to one another. The book addresses von Trier’s films in order of their release. The earlier chapters discuss his Golden Heart trilogy and USA: Land of Opportunities series by addressing issues of potential misogyny, ethical critique, and racial justice. The later chapters focus on his Depression Trilogy and address the undermining of gender binaries, the psychoanalytic meaning of the sacrifice of children and depression, and philosophical questions provoked by the depiction of the end of the world. Taken together, the volume explores the topics of Philosophical Psychology, Social Theory, Political Theory, Theories of the Self, Philosophy of Race, and Feminist Thought, and opens a conversation about von Trier’s important work.

The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures

Author : Noël Carroll
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030196011
Total Pages : 1047 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Book Synopsis The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures by : Noël Carroll

Download or read book The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures written by Noël Carroll and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 1047 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook brings together essays in the philosophy of film and motion pictures from authorities across the spectrum. It boasts contributions from philosophers and film theorists alike, with many essays employing pluralist approaches to this interdisciplinary subject. Core areas treated include film ontology, film structure, psychology, authorship, narrative, and viewer emotion. Emerging areas of interest, including virtual reality, video games, and nonfictional and autobiographical film also have dedicated chapters. Other areas of focus include the film medium’s intersection with contemporary social issues, film’s kinship to other art forms, and the influence of historically seminal schools of thought in the philosophy of film. Of emphasis in many of the essays is the relationship and overlap of analytic and continental perspectives in this subject.

The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism

Author : Hermann Kappelhoff
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231539312
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book The Politics and Poetics of Cinematic Realism written by Hermann Kappelhoff and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hermann Kappelhoff casts the evolution of cinema as an ongoing struggle to relate audiences to their historical moment. Appreciating cinema's unique ability to bind concrete living conditions to individual experience (which existing political institutions cannot), he reads films by Sergei Eisenstein and Pedro Almodóvar, by the New Objectivity and the New Hollywood, to demonstrate how cinema situates spectators within society. Kappelhoff applies the Deleuzean practice of "thinking in images" to his analysis of films and incorporates the approaches of Jacques Rancière and Richard Rorty, who see politics in the permanent reconfiguration of poetic forms. This enables him to conceptualize film as a medium that continually renews the audiovisual spaces and temporalities through which audiences confront reality. Revitalizing the reading of films by Visconti, Fassbinder, Kubrick, Friedkin, and others, Kappelhoff affirms cinema's historical significance while discovering its engagement with politics as a realm of experience.

Cinema, Theory, and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture

Author : Patrick McGee
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521589086
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis Cinema, Theory, and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture by : Patrick McGee

Download or read book Cinema, Theory, and Political Responsibility in Contemporary Culture written by Patrick McGee and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-08-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: McGee explores the political significance of aesthetic analysis in the context of cultural studies, and asks how political responsibility can be reconciled with the concept of the university as a democratic institution.

Trust in the World

Author : Josef Früchtl
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367667511
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (675 download)

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Download or read book Trust in the World written by Josef Früchtl and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the theory, originally raised in Gilles Deleuze's philosophy of film, that cinema has the power to restore our trust in the world. Früchtl demonstrates that cinema does this in three main ways: by restoring our belief in the absurd, in the body and in a sceptical abstention from judging and acting. Cinema shares this ability with other arts, but what sets it apart in particular is that it evokes Modernity and its principle of subjectivity. This book further develops the idea of trust and cinema by synthesizing the philosophies of complementary thinkers such as Kant, Nancy, Agamben, Benjamin and Rancière. It concludes with examination of Cavell's solution to the problem of scepticism and a synthesis of Kantian aesthetic theory with Cavellian pragmatism. Originally published in German under the title Vertrauen in die Welt, this English-language translation features a new introduction that situates Früchtl's work within contemporary analytical philosophy of film. It will be of interest to scholars working in Continental aesthetics, philosophy of film, and film theory.

European Cinema and Continental Philosophy

Author : Thomas Elsässer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1441129499
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)

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Book Synopsis European Cinema and Continental Philosophy by : Thomas Elsässer

Download or read book European Cinema and Continental Philosophy written by Thomas Elsässer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking volume for the Thinking Cinema series focuses on the extent to which contemporary cinema contributes to political and philosophical thinking about the future of Europe's core Enlightenment values. In light of the challenges of globalization, multi-cultural communities and post-nation state democracy, the book interrogates the borders of ethics and politics and roots itself in debates about post-secular, post-Enlightenment philosophy. By defining a cinema that knows that it is no longer a competitor to Hollywood (i.e. the classic self-other construction), Elsaesser also thinks past the kind of self-exoticism or auto-ethnography that is the perpetual temptation of such a co-produced, multi-platform 'national cinema as world cinema'. Discussing key filmmakers and philosophers, like: Claire Denis and Jean-Luc Nancy; Aki Kaurismäki, abjection and Julia Kristeva; Michael Haneke, the paradoxes of Christianity and Slavoj Zizek; Fatih Akin, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière, Elsaesser is able to approach European cinema and assesses its key questions within a global context. His combination of political and philosophical thinking will surely ground the debate in film philosophy for years to come.