Wittgenstein at the Movies - Cinematic Investigations

Informationen zum Autor Béla Szabados is professor of philosophy at the University of Regina. He is co-editor of Wittgenstein Reads Weininger and co-author of Hypocrisy: Ethical Investigations and On the Track of Reason, among other publications. Christina Stojanova is assistant professor of media production and studies at the University of Regina. Klappentext Wittgenstein at the Movies is centered on in-depth explorations of two intriguing experimental films on Wittgenstein: Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein and Péter Forgács' Wittgenstein Tractatus. The featured essays look at cinematic interpretations of Wittgenstein's life and philosophy in a manner bound to provoke the lively interest of Wittgenstein scholars, film theorists, students of film aesthetics and artistic modernism, and those concerned with the world of Cambridge in the first half of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Wittgenstein at the Movies: An Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1. Showing, Not Saying: Filming a Philosophical Genius Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Remarks on the Scripts for Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein Chapter 4 Chapter 3. The World Hued: Jarman and Wittgenstein on Colour Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Sketches of Landscapes: Wittgenstein after Wittgenstein Chapter 6 Chapter 5. "How It Was Then": Home Movies as History in Péter Forgács's Meanwhile Somewhere... Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Meaning Through Pictures: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Péter Forgács Chapter 8 Chapter 7. Beyond Text and Image: Péter Forgács and his Wittgenstein Tractatus

Product details

• Authors: Bela/ Stojanova Szabados, Bzla Szabados
• Assisted by: Christina Stojanova (Editor), Stojanova Christina (Editor), Bela Szabados (Editor), Béla Szabados (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.03.2011
• EAN: 9780739148853
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-4885-3
• No. of pages: 172
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, Philosophy: aesthetics, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -