Transcendence and Film - Cinematic Encounters With the Real

In this book, ten experts in philosophy of film explore the importance of transcendence for cinema as an art form in the films of the great directors, David Cronenberg, Karl Theodor Dreyer, Federico Fellini, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, Yasujiro Ozu, and Martin Scorsese.

List of contents

Introduction

David P. Nichols

1.The Dream of Anxiety in David Lynch's Mulholland Drive

Dylan Trigg

2. Transcendence and Tragedy in My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

Herbert Golder

3. eXistenZ or Existenz: Transcendence in the Early 21st century

K. Malcolm Richards

4. Earth and World: Malick's Badlands

Jason M. Wirth

5.Pointing Towards Transcendence: When Film Becomes Art

Frédéric Seyler

6. Transcendence in Phenomenology and Film: Ozu's Still Lives

Allan Casebier

7. ASA NISI MASA: Kierkegaardian Repetition in Fellini's 8 ¿

Joseph Westfall

8. Transcendence and the Ineffable in Scorsese's Silence

David P. Nichols

9. La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc and the Cadence of Images

John B. Brough

10. Ciphers of Transcendence in 2001: A Space Odyssey

Kevin L. Stoehr

About the author

David P. Nichols is associate professor of philosophy at Saginaw Valley State University.

Summary

In this book, ten experts in philosophy of film explore the importance of transcendence for cinema as an art form in the films of the great directors, David Cronenberg, Karl Theodor Dreyer, Federico Fellini, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, Yasujiro Ozu, and Martin Scorsese.

Product details

• Authors: David P. Nichols
• Assisted by: David P. Nichols (Editor), Nichols David P. (Editor)
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.05.2023
• EAN: 9781498580014
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-8001-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Media Studies, History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film Theory & Criticism, Film history, theory or criticism