Transcendence and Film (eBook)

Cinematic Encounters with the Real

David P. Nichols (Herausgeber)

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2019
192 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-8000-7 (ISBN)

Infos

In this edited collection of essays, ten experts in film philosophy explore the importance of transcendence for understanding cinema as an art form. They analyze the role of transcendence for some of the most innovative film directors: David Cronenberg, Karl Theodor Dreyer, Federico Fellini, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, David Lynch, Terrence Malick, Yasujiro Ozu, and Martin Scorsese. Meanwhile they apply concepts of transcendence from continental philosophers like Alain Badiou, Gilles Deleuze, Martin Heidegger, Michel Henry, Edmund Husserl, Karl Jaspers, Soren Kierkegaard, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Jean-Paul Sartre. Each of the ten chapters results in a different perspective about what transcendence means and how it is essential to film as an art medium. Several common threads emerge among the chapters. The contributors find that the limitations of human existence are frequently made evident in moments of transcendence, so as to bring characters to the margins of their assumed world. At other times, transcendence goes immanent, so as to emerge in experiences of the surprising nearness of being, as though for a radical intensification of life. Film can also exhibit "e;ciphers of transcendence"e; whereby symbolic events open us to greater realizations about our place in the world. Lastly, the contributors observe that transcendence occurs in film, not simply from isolated moments forced into a storyline, but in a manner rooted within an ontological rhythm peculiar to the film itself.

Produkt-Details

• Co-Autor: John B. Brough, Jason M. Wirth, Allan Casebier, Herbert Golder, Boston University Kevin L. Stoehr, David P. Nichols, K. Malcolm Richards, Frederic Seyler, Dylan James Trigg, Joseph Westfall
• Zusatzinfo: 6 Illustrations including: - 6 Halftones, Black & White including Black & White Photographs.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Alain Badiou • Continental Philosophy • Cultural Studies • David Cronenberg • David Lynch • Edmund Husserl • existenialism • Federico Fellini • film criticism • film philosophy • Film Studies • Film theory • Friedrich Nietzsche • Gilles Deleuze • Jean-Paul Sartre • Karl Jaspers • Karl Theodor Dreyer • Martin Heidegger • Martin Scorsese • Maurice Merleau-Ponty • Metaphysics • Michel Henry • Movies • Phenomenology • philosophy of art • Philosophy of film • Søren Kierkegaard • Stanley Kubrick • Terrence Malick • Werner Herzog • Yasujiro Ozu
• ISBN-10: 1-4985-8000-9 / 1498580009
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4985-8000-7 / 9781498580007