Jacques Rancière: Film Fables (2006)
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Film Fables traces the history of modern cinema. Encyclopedic in scope, Film Fables is that rare work that manages to combine extraordinary breadth and analysis with a lyricism which attests time and again to a love of cinema.
Jacques Ranciere moves effortlessly from Eisenstein’s and Murnau’s transition from theatre to film to Fritz Lang’s confrontation with television, from the classical poetics of Mann’s Westerns to Ray’s romantic poetics of the image, from Rossellini’s neo-realism to Deleuze’s philosophy of the cinema and Marker’s documentaries.
The Film Fable shows us how, between its images and its stories, the cinema tells its truth.
Translated from the French by Emiliano Battista
Series: Talking images series
Publisher Berg Publishers, 2006
ISBN 184520168X, 9781845201685
196 pages
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Comment (0)Patricia Ticineto Clough: Autoaffection. Unconscious Thought in the Age of Teletechnology (2000)
Filed under book | Tags: · body without organs, deconstruction, ethnography, feminism, film theory, ontology, poststructuralism, psychoanalysis, reterritorialization, technoscience, television, video art
Explores the connection between new theories, new technologies, and new ways of thinking.
In this book, Patricia Ticineto Clough reenergizes critical theory by viewing poststructuralist thought through the lens of “teletechnology,” using television as a recurring case study to illuminate the changing relationships between subjectivity, technology, and mass media.
Autoaffection links diverse forms of cultural criticism—feminist theory, queer theory, film theory, postcolonial theory, Marxist cultural studies and literary criticism, the cultural studies of science and the criticism of ethnographic writing—to the transformation and expansion of teletechnology in the late twentieth century. These theoretical approaches, Clough suggests, have become the vehicles of unconscious thought in our time.
In individual chapters, Clough juxtaposes the likes of Derridean deconstruction, Deleuzian philosophy, and Lacanian psychoanalysis. She works through the writings of Fredric Jameson, Donna Haraway, Judith Butler, Bruno Latour, Nancy Fraser, Elizabeth Grosz-to name only a few-placing all in dialogue with a teletechnological framework. Clough shows how these cultural criticisms have raised questions about the foundation of thought, allowing us to reenvision the relationship of nature and technology, the human and the machine, the virtual and the real, the living and the inert.
Publisher University of Minnesota Press, 2000
ISBN 0816628890, 9780816628896
213 pages
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Comment (0)Kooijman, Pisters, Strauven (eds.): Mind the Screen: Media Concepts According to Thomas Elsaesser (2009)
Filed under book | Tags: · cinema, film, film theory, media archeology, media studies
“Mind the Screen pays tribute to Thomas Elsaesser, a pioneering and leading scholar in the field of film and media studies. The contributions present a close-up of media concepts developed by Elsaesser, providing a mirror for all types of audiovisual screens, from archaeological pre-cinematic screens to the silver screen, from the TV set to the video installation and the digital e-screen, and from the city screen to the mobile phone display. The book is divided into three ‘Acts’: Melodrama, Memory, Mind Game; Europe-Hollywood-Europe; and Archaeology, Avant-Garde, Archive.”
Edited by Jaap Kooijman, Patricia Pisters, and Wanda Strauven
Publisher Amsterdam University Press, 2009
ISBN 9089640258, 9789089640253
374 pages
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