Where Film Meets Philosophy - Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking

Informationen zum Autor Hunter Vaughan is assistant professor of English and Cinema Studies at Oakland University. His scholarly interests include the moving image, philosophy, and the environment. He has a basset hound named Opie. Klappentext 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 relations with Gilles Deleuze¿s image-philosophy, Vaughan applies this rich framework to a comparative analysis of Godard and Resnais. Situating the formative works of these filmmakers within a broader philosophical context, Vaughan pioneers a phenomenological film semiotics that reconciles two disparate methodologies and joins them to the achievements of two seemingly oppositional artists. Zusammenfassung The formal techniques two classic French filmmakers developed to explore cinema’s philosophical potential. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Where Film Meets Philosophy1. Phenomenology and the Viewing Subject2. Film Connotation and the Signified Subject3. Sound! Image! and the Order of Meaning4. Alain Resnais and the Code of Subjectivity5. Jean-Luc Godard and the Code of ObjectivityConclusion: Where Film and Philosophy May LeadNotesBibliographyIndex

Product details

• Authors: Vaughan, Hunter Vaughan, Hunter (Assistant Professor Vaughan, Vaughan Hunter
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2012
• EAN: 9780231161336
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16133-6
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Film and Culture Series; Film Culture; Film and Culture Series; Film Culture; Film & Culture (COUP)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Music, film, theatre; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Film, TV & radio, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Film history, theory or criticism, philosophy; aesthetics; film