Patricia Pisters: The Matrix of Visual Culture. Working with Deleuze in Film Theory (2003)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, cinema, cyborg, deterritorialization, film, film theory, immanence, rhizome, time-image, visual culture
This book explores Gilles Deleuze’s contribution to film theory. According to Deleuze, we have come to live in a universe that could be described as metacinematic. His conception of images implies a new kind of camera consciousness, one that determines our perceptions and sense of selves: aspects of our subjectivities are formed in, for instance, action-images, affection-images and time-images. We live in a matrix of visual culture that is always moving and changing. Each image is always connected to an assemblage of affects and forces. This book presents a model, as well as many concrete examples, of how to work with Deleuze in film theory. It asks questions about the universe as metacinema, subjectivity, violence, feminism, monstrosity, and music. Among the contemporary films it discusses within a Deleuzian framework are Strange Days, Fight Club, and Dancer in the Dark.
Publisher Stanford University Press, 2003
Cultural Memory in the Present series
ISBN 0804740283, 9780804740289
303 pages
review (Patricia MacCormack, Senses of Cinema)
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Comment (0)Oleksiy Radynski: Optical Unconscious in Visual Culture (2008) [Ukrainian]
Filed under thesis | Tags: · 1920s, 1930s, cinema, documentary film, film history, film theory, marxism, media theory, psychoanalytics, russia, visual culture
Study of the interaction of Marxist and psychoanalytic projects in theory and practice of documentary films in 1920s and 1930s.
В роботі досліджується взаємодія марксистського та психоаналітичного проектів в теорії та практиці неігрового кіно 1920-30-х років.
Master thesis
National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy
Supervisor: Michael Sobutskiy
Felicity Colman (ed.): Film, Theory, and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · cinema, film, film history, film theory, philosophy, theory
Thoroughly intertwined, film and philosophy have a complex relationship between thought and perception, time and memory, as well as social, political, and aesthetic experiences. Philosophy has underpinned the creation of cinema while cinema, in turn, has redefined philosophical categories, rethought sex, gender, time and space, and created new concepts that illuminate phenomenology, metaphysics, and epistemology.
An ideal introduction for students, Film, Theory and Philosophy brings together leading scholars to provide a clear, detailed overview of the key thinkers who have shaped the field of film philosophy. From continental philosophers to analytical 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 most importantly, the essays explore how cinema has shaped contemporary philosophy and how philosophy has led to a reappraisal of film. This collection will prove an invaluable reference and guide to readers interested in a deeper understanding of the issues and insights presented by the philosophy of film.
Publisher McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2009
ISBN 0773537007, 9780773537002
404 pages
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