Acinemas : Lyotard's philosophy of film / edited by Graham Jones and Ashley Woodward.
This collection presents, for the first time in English, Jean-François Lyotard's major essays on film: 'Acinema', 'The Unconscious as Mise-en-scene', 'Two Metamorphoses of the Seductive in Cinema' and 'The Idea of a Sovereign Film'. Then, eight critical e...
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Edinburgh University Press,
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| Summary: | This collection presents, for the first time in English, Jean-François Lyotard's major essays on film: 'Acinema', 'The Unconscious as Mise-en-scene', 'Two Metamorphoses of the Seductive in Cinema' and 'The Idea of a Sovereign Film'. Then, eight critical essays by philosophers and film theorists examine Lyotard's film work and influence across two sections: 'Approaches and Interpretations' and 'Applications and Extensions'. These works are complemented by an introductory essay by leading French scholar Jean-Michel Durafour on Lyotard's film-philosophy, an overview of Lyotard's practical film projects written by his collaborators Claudine Eizykman and Guy Fihman, and the synopsis for a later film project Memorial Immemorial, which Lyotard proposed but was not produced. Jean-Francois Lyotard was the most significant aesthetician of the poststructuralist generation, but this dimension of his thought is only recently beginning to receive the attention it deserves in the English-speaking world. He devoted a number of essays to film, and was involved in making several experimental short films. Lyotard's reflections on film offer a perspective which seeks to do justice to it as an art by focusing on its aesthetic, material qualities. His work in this area remains a largely untapped resource, with the potential for inaugurating exciting new directions in film-philosophy. |
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| Item Description: | "This book began as a research project centered around a two-day conference, Acinemas: Aesthetics and Film in the Philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard, held at the University of Dundee, 7-8 May 2014"--Page vii. Essays translated by Peter W. Milne and Ashley Woodward.--Page xii. |
| Physical Description: | xii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218), filmography (page [214]) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781474418935 1474418937 9781474418942 1474418945 |
| Language: | Texts in English with four texts translated from the French. |