Philosophy Myth Amp Epic Cinema

Informationen zum Autor Sylvie Magerstadt is Lecturer in Media Cultures at the University of Hertfordshire. Klappentext This is a philosophical discussion of cinema's power to create positive illusions and myths, drawing on Nietzsche, Kracauer, and Deleuze. Zusammenfassung This is a philosophical discussion of cinema’s power to create positive illusions and myths, drawing on Nietzsche, Kracauer, and Deleuze. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments / Abbreviations / Introduction: Philosophy, Myth, Spectacle / Part I: How Real is Reality? - A Review on the Relation of Reality, Art and Illusions / 1. From Dream Factory to Cathedrals of Pop Culture: Mythological, Religious and Ideological Approaches to Cinema / 2. The Realm of the Real: Reality, Images and Cinematic Realism / 3. Back to the Future? Contemporary Cinema and the Challenges for Theorists / Part II: May We Really Believe in Hollywood? - The Creation of Modern Myths / 4. Redemption Through Illusion: Cinematic Myths / 5. Healthy illusions: Hollywood's Realism and the Return of the Epics / 6. Possible Worlds, Impossible Narratives?: The Potentials and Limits of Digital Storytelling / Epilogue: Further Reflections and Further Directions / Bibliography / Filmography / Index

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• Authors: Magerstadt, Dr Sylvie Magerstadt, Sylvie Magerstadt, Magerstädt, Sylvie Magerstädt, Magerstadt Sylvie, Sylvie Magersteadt
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.12.2014
• EAN: 9781783482511
• ISBN: 978-1-78348-251-1
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Aesthetics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Post-Structuralism, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Deconstruction, Films, cinema, Philosophy: aesthetics, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Structuralism, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Deconstructionism, Structuralism, Post-structuralism, Structuralism and Post-structuralism