Filmed Thought
Title | Filmed Thought PDF eBook |
Author | Robert B. Pippin |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 313 |
Release | 2019-12-16 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 022667200X |
With the rise of review sites and social media, films today, as soon as they are shown, immediately become the topic of debates on their merits not only as entertainment, but also as serious forms of artistic expression. Philosopher Robert B. Pippin, however, wants us to consider a more radical proposition: film as thought, as a reflective form. Pippin explores this idea through a series of perceptive analyses of cinematic masterpieces, revealing how films can illuminate, in a concrete manner, core features and problems of shared human life. Filmed Thought examines questions of morality in Almodóvar’s Talk to Her, goodness and naïveté in Hitchcock’s Shadow of a Doubt, love and fantasy in Sirk’s All That Heaven Allows, politics and society in Polanski’s Chinatown and Malick’s The Thin Red Line, and self-understanding and understanding others in Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place and in the Dardennes brothers' oeuvre. In each reading, Pippin pays close attention to what makes these films exceptional as technical works of art (paying special attention to the role of cinematic irony) and as intellectual and philosophical achievements. Throughout, he shows how films offer a view of basic problems of human agency from the inside and allow viewers to think with and through them. Captivating and insightful, Filmed Thought shows us what it means to take cinema seriously not just as art, but as thought, and how this medium provides a singular form of reflection on what it is to be human.
Emotion Pictures
Title | Emotion Pictures PDF eBook |
Author | Wim Wenders |
Publisher | |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Motion picture music |
ISBN | 9780571152728 |
Essays discuss movies and movie directors, including Truffaut, Hitchcock, Ford, Lang, Altman, and Leone
Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue
Title | Michelangelo Red Antonioni Blue PDF eBook |
Author | Murray Pomerance |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2011-03-15 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0520948300 |
Michelangelo Antonioni, who died in 2007, was one of cinema’s greatest modernist filmmakers. The films in his black and white trilogy of the early 1960s—L’avventura, La Notte, L‘eclisse—are justly celebrated for their influential, gorgeously austere style. But in this book, Murray Pomerance demonstrates why the color films that followed are, in fact, Antonioni’s greatest works. Writing in an accessible style that evokes Antonioni’s expansive use of space, Pomerance discusses The Red Desert, Blow-Up, Professione: Reporter (The Passenger), Zabriskie Point, Identification of a Woman, The Mystery of Oberwald, Beyond the Clouds, and The Dangerous Thread of Things to analyze the director’s subtle and complex use of color. Infusing his open-ended inquiry with both scholarly and personal reflection, Pomerance evokes the full range of sensation, nuance, and equivocation that became Antonioni’s signature.
Cinema Without Reflection
Title | Cinema Without Reflection PDF eBook |
Author | Akira Mizuta Lippit |
Publisher | Forerunners: Ideas First |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | Motion pictures |
ISBN | 9781517900045 |
Cinema without Reflection traces an implicit film theory in Jacques Derrida's oeuvre, especially in his frequent invocation of the myth of Echo and Narcissus. Derrida's reflections on the economies of image and sound that reverberate in this story, along with the spectral dialectics of love, mirrors, and poiesis, serve as the basis for a theory of cinema that Derrida perhaps secretly imagined. Following Derrida's interventions on Echo and Narcissus across his thought on the visual arts, Akira Mizuta Lippit seeks to return to a theory of cinema adrift in Derrida's philosophy. Forerunners is a thought-in-process series of breakthrough digital works. Written between fresh ideas and finished books, Forerunners draws on scholarly work initiated in notable blogs, social media, conference plenaries, journal articles, and the synergy of academic exchange. This is gray literature publishing: where intense thinking, change, and speculation take place in scholarship.
Indefinite Visions
Title | Indefinite Visions PDF eBook |
Author | Beugnet Martine Beugnet |
Publisher | Edinburgh University Press |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2017-07-07 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1474407137 |
Moving image culture seems to privilege the instantly identifiable: the recognizable face, the well-timed stunt, the perfectly synchronized line of dialogue. Yet perfect, in-focus visibility does not come 'naturally' to the moving image, and if there is one visual effect the eye of the camera can record better than the human eye it is blur. Looking beyond popular media to works of experimental cinema and video art, this groundbreaking collection addresses the aesthetics and politics of moving images in states of decay, distortion, indistinctness and fragmentation. A range of international scholars examines what is at stake in these images' sometimes radical foregrounding of materiality and mediation, or of evanescence and spectrality, as well as their challenging of the dominant position accorded to 'legible' images. How have artists and filmmakers rendered the 'indefinite' image, and what questions does it pose? With a range of approaches, from aesthetics to phenomenology to production studies, the authors in this volume investigate techniques, themes and concepts that emerge from this wilful excavation of the moving image's material base.
Sculpting in Time
Title | Sculpting in Time PDF eBook |
Author | Andrey Tarkovsky |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 1989-04 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780292776241 |
A director reveals the original inspirations for his films, their history, his methods of work, and the problems of visual creativity
Mysteries of Cinema
Title | Mysteries of Cinema PDF eBook |
Author | Adrian Martin |
Publisher | UWA Publishing |
Pages | 521 |
Release | 2020-04-01 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 1760801305 |
The major essays of the distinguished and prolific Australian-born film critic Adrian Martin have long been difficult to access, so this anthology, which collects highlights of his work in one volume, will be welcomed throughout film studies. Martin offers in-depth analysis of many genres of films while providing a broad understanding of the history of cinema and the history of film criticism and culture. These vibrant, highly personal essays, written between 1982 and 2016, balance breadth across cinema theory with almost encyclopedic detail, ranging between aesthetics, cinephilia, film genre, criticism, philosophy, and cultural politics. Mysteries of Cinema circumscribes a special cultural period that began with the dream of critique as a form of poetic writing, and today arrives at collaborative experiments in audiovisual essays. Throughout these essays, Martin pursues a particular vision of what cinema has been, what it is, and what it still could be.