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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"film philosophy"”.
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PECULIAR THEORY: THE PROBLEM OF PHILOSOPHY IN SIEGFRIED KRACAUER’S THEORY OF FILM
ABSTRACT The republication of Theory of Film: The Redemption of Physical Reality by Siegfried Kracauer (1889 – 1966) in 1997 marked not just the highpoint of a period of renewed interest in his work, a period initiated by a series of events organized to mark the centenary of his birth, but also the …
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Reclaiming the image. Béla Tarr's world of 'inhuman' becoming: an artistic and philosophical inquiry
… affect and thought. On the other, to 'continue' films' images by opening their thinking further. The project of reclaiming the image as re-thinking in non-representational terms of immanent becoming will engage the Deleuzian- Bergsonian- Nietzschean concepts of time, life and aesthetics, and …
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Unmaking the remake: Lacanian psychoanalysis, Deleuzian logic, and the problem of repetition in Hollywood cinema
… stars to the elementary mechanism of film projection (twenty-four times per<br/>second): cinema is repetition. It is perhaps little wonder then that psychoanalysis is often<br/>thought of as one of the discourses with which to write about film in the 20th century.<br/>However, this …
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An Extreme Ear to the World: Noise in Contemporary European Cinema
… in a strand of post-1999 contemporary European film and philosophy. It argues that noise, defined predominantly as unpleasant or unidentifiable sound, has been harnessed by particular filmmakers as a means to tune our attention to different bodies sounding in our environment. Yet while the ear …
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Michel Foucault’s panopticism and dystopian discourses: the asymmetry of the gaze in philosophy and film /
… with contemporary power relations and film mechanisms. By reconsidering the circumstances in which panoptic power dispositifs were established within the context of Foucault’s works, and by drawing on his texts, as well as Michel de Certeau’s idea of the colonization of panoptic power …
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Mediated Masculinities: The Forms of Masculinity in American Genre Film, 1990-1999
… as forms. Specifically, I closely read Western films and masculine crisis films from 1990 to 1999 to map how cinematic forms constitute the potential to alter normative modes of masculinity. To launch this endeavor, I rely on a theoretical hybrid of Brinkema-Deleuze-Spinoza that foregrounds …
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'Face Value' in the Moving Image Practices of Harun Farocki, William Kentridge, and Hito Steyerl
… a locus of capture and resistance in the essay films and installations of Harun Farocki, the performance and video art of Hito Steyerl, and William Kentridge’s intermedial productions for gallery and stage. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s articulation of the face as a site of political …