Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy

Informationen zum Autor Mathew Abbott is Lecturer in Philosophy at Federation University Australia. He completed his PhD at in philosophy at the University of Sydney. He has taught philosophy, film, aesthetics and poetry at Sydney, the Australian National University and the University of Canberra. He researches modern European philosophy, political philosophy, critical theory and aesthetics. Klappentext Mathew Abbott presents a powerful new film-philosophy through the cinema of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Mathew Abbott argues that Kiarostami's films carry out cinematic thinking: they do not just illustrate pre-existing philosophical ideas, but do real philosophical work. Zusammenfassung Mathew Abbott presents a powerful new film-philosophy through the cinema of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Mathew Abbott argues that Kiarostami's films carry out cinematic thinking: they do not just illustrate pre-existing philosophical ideas, but do real philosophical work. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgementsIntroduction: Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy1. Cinematic Scepticism2. Apparition and Appearance3. Everything there is to Know4. Artifice and the Ordinary5. Absorption and Spectatorship6. The Comedy of Remarriage in an Age of Digital Reproducibility7. The Suspension of BeliefBibliographyIndex

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• Authors: Abbott, Lecturer in Philosophy Mathew (Federation University Australia) Abbott, Lecturer in Philosophy Mathew (University Abbott, Lecturer in Philosophy Mathew (University of Ballarat Abbott, Mathew Abbott
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2016
• EAN: 9780748699902
• ISBN: 978-0-7486-9990-2
• No. of pages: 200
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works