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Informationen zum Autor Paul Bowman is Reader in Cultural Studies at Cardiff University. He is the author of Post-Marxism versus Cultural Studies (2007), Deconstructing Popular Culture (2008), Theorizing Bruce Lee (2010), Culture and the Media (2012), Beyond Bruce Lee (2013) and Reading Rey Chow (2013). Klappentext 'These magnificent essays set Rancière's writings on film squarely in the context of his work on aesthetics, politics, and cultural studies. No less, readers will marvel at Rancière's tersely drawn postface, in dialogue with the preceding chapters, attesting to the origins, the trajectory, and the impact of a lifelong relation with cinema.'Tom Conley, Harvard UniversityAn advanced assessment of the film work of the philosopher Jacques RancièreJacques Rancière rose to prominence as a radical egalitarian philosopher, political theorist and historian. Recently he has intervened into the discourses of film theory and film studies, publishing controversial and challenging works on these topics.This collection offers an exciting range of responses to his contribution to film studies. It features an international range of scholars, who engage with Rancière and film from a wide variety of perspectives. The Introduction orientates new readers into the historical and disciplinary debates which are key to understanding Rancière. Also included is a response to the essays by Rancière himself on the subject of film.This is an important collection for students and researchers of film studies, cultural studies, critical and cultural theory and Continental philosophy.Paul Bowman is Reader in Cultural Studies at Cardiff University.Cover image: Man with a Movie Camera film poster. Designed by Vladimir and Georgii Stenberg (1929).Cover design:[EUP logo]www.euppublishing.com Zusammenfassung The first collection of critical essays on the film work of the philosopher Jacques Rancière. This book offers an exciting range of responses to and assessments of his contributions to film studies and includes a new piece by Rancière himself on the subject of film. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; 1. Rancière and the Disciplines: An Introduction to Rancière before Film Studies, Paul Bowman; 2. What Does It Mean To Call Film An Art?, Nico Baumbach; 3. After the Passage of the Beast: 'False Documentary' Aspirations, Acousmatic Complications, Rey Chow; 4. The Spectator Without Qualities, Abraham Geil; 5. Memories of Modernism: Jacques Rancière, Chris Marker, and the Image of Modernism, Bram Ieven; 6. Aesthetic Irruptions: Politics of Perception in Alex De La Iglesia's La Comunidad, Mónica López Lerma; 7. Inhuman Spectatorship, Patricia MacCormack; 8. Cinemarxis: Rancière and Godard, Mark Robson; 9. Jacques Rancière's Animated Vertigo; or, how to be specific about medium, Richard Stamp; 10. The Medium Is Not the Message: Rancière, Eschatology, and the End of Cinema, James A. Steintrager; 11. Remarks by way of a Postface, Jacques Rancière; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index....
