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Where film meets philosophy : Godard, Resnais, and experiments in cinematic thinking / Hunter Vaughan.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Film and culturePublisher: New York : Columbia University Press, [2013]Description: x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780231161329 (cloth : acid-free paper)
  • 9780231161336 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4301
LOC classification:
  • PN 1995 V364w 2013
Contents:
Introduction: where film meets philosophy -- Phenomenology and the viewing subject -- Film connotation and the signified subject -- Sound, image, and the order of meaning -- Alain Resnais and the code of subjectivity -- Jean-Luc Godard and the code of objectivity -- Conclusion: where film and philosophy may lead.
Summary: Closely reading the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, Hunter Vaughan establishes a connection between phenomenology and image-philosophy to analyze the moving image and its challenge to conventional modes of thought. Striving to establish a clear foundation for the recent field of inquiry called?film-philosophy," he devises a systematic theory of film's philosophical function and its deconstruction of classic oppositional concepts, such as subject and object, real and imaginary, and interior and exterior. After merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's theory of subject-object rel.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Humanidades Humanidades (4to. Piso) PN 1995 V364w 2013 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 1 Available 00000116072

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index.

Introduction: where film meets philosophy -- Phenomenology and the viewing subject -- Film connotation and the signified subject -- Sound, image, and the order of meaning -- Alain Resnais and the code of subjectivity -- Jean-Luc Godard and the code of objectivity -- Conclusion: where film and philosophy may lead.

Closely reading the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, Hunter Vaughan establishes a connection between phenomenology and image-philosophy to analyze the moving image and its challenge to conventional modes of thought. Striving to establish a clear foundation for the recent field of inquiry called?film-philosophy," he devises a systematic theory of film's philosophical function and its deconstruction of classic oppositional concepts, such as subject and object, real and imaginary, and interior and exterior. After merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's theory of subject-object rel.

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