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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815286103321

Titolo

European film theory / / edited by Temenuga Trifonova

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : New York, : Routledge, 2008

ISBN

1-135-90253-4

1-282-25650-5

9786612256509

0-203-89370-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (383 p.)

Collana

AFI film readers

Altri autori (Persone)

TrifonovaTemenuga

Disciplina

791.4301

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Europe

Film criticism - Europe

Europe In motion pictures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

book cover; title; copyright; contents; illustrations; acknowledgments; introduction: that perpetually obscure object of theory; part one: european film theory; one: european film theory: from crypto-nationalism to trans-nationalism; two: the aesthetics of race in european film theory; three: the disunity of film theory and the disunity of aesthetics; four: real location, fantasy space, performative place: double occupancy and mutual interference in european cinema; part two: film and philosophy; five: film as philosophy: a mission impossible?

six: platonic reconstruction and residual kantianism in film theoryseven: epstein, bergson, and vision; eight: heidegger and cinema; nine: listening and touching, looking and thinking: the dialogue in philosophy and film between jean-luc nancy and claire denis; part three: politics, history, ideology, and fi lm theory; ten: fabulation and contradiction: jacques rancière on cinema; eleven: the gaze of biocinema; twelve: from cinema to history: kracauer's shifting philosophical historiography; thirteen: disposition: from film theory to human action; part four: aesthetics and film theory

fourteen: between the ornament and the corpse: adolf loos and



classical film theoryfifteen: baroque dialectics or dialectical baroque: sergei eisenstein in/on mexico; sixteen: a screen for projection: ricciotto canudo's exponential aesthetics and the parisian avant-gardes; seventeen: synaesthesia in fi lm theory; part five: realism revisited; eighteen: innocence and ontology: the truthfulness of andré bazin; nineteen: from distraction to indeterminacy to distraction: kracauer and contemporary film realist discourse; twenty: national identity and realism in postwar italian film and film theory

twenty - one: neorealism at a distanceappendix: teaching aid; contributors; index

Sommario/riassunto

European Film Theory explores the 'Europeanness' of European film theory, its philosophical origins, the 'culture wars' between 'Continental' and 'Analytical' film theory and philosophy, the major discursive and epistemological shifts in the history of Continental film theory, the relationship between Continental philosophy of art and philosophy of history and European film theory. Writing from a range of disciplines and perspectives, the contributors to this new volume in the AFI FILM READERS series offer fresh interpretations of European film theorists and illuminate the politica