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Author Abbott, Mathew, author

Title Abbas Kiarostami and film-philosophy / Mathew Abbott
Published Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2017

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Contents Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Abbas Kiarostami and film-philosophy -- "The Wind Will Carry Us:" cinematic scepticism -- "ABC Africa:" apparition and appearance -- "Ten:" everything there is to know -- "Five:" artifice and the ordinary -- "Shirin:" absorption and spectatorship -- "Certified Copy:" the comedy of remarriage in an age of digital reproducibility -- "Like Someone in Love:" the suspension of belief -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary Mathew Abbott presents a powerful new film-philosophy through the cinema of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Mathew Abbott argues that Kiarostami's films carry out cinematic thinking: they do not just illustrate pre-existing philosophical ideas, but do real philosophical work. Crossing the divide between analytic and continental philosophy, he draws on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, John McDowell, Alice Crary, Noñl Carroll, Giorgio Agamben, and Martin Heidegger, bringing out the thinking at work in Kiarostami's most recent films: Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, ABC Africa, Ten, Five, Shirin, Certified Copy and Like Someone in Love. A deflationary, anti-theoretical film-philosophy through the cinema of Abbas Kiarostami. Mathew Abbott presents a powerful new film-philosophy through the cinema of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Mathew Abbott argues that Kiarostami's films carry out cinematic thinking: they do not just illustrate pre-existing philosophical ideas, but do real philosophical work.Crossing the divide between analytic and continental philosophy, he draws on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, John McDowell, Alice Crary, Noó±l Carroll, Giorgio Agamben, and Martin Heidegger, bringing out the thinking at work in Kiarostami's most recent films: Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, ABC Africa, Ten, Five, Shirin, Certified Copy and Like Someone in Love
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-161) and index
SUBJECT Kiarostami, Abbas. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no98065081
Kiarostami, Abbas. fast (OCoLC)fst00412944
Subject Motion pictures -- Philosophy
PHILOSOPHY -- Aesthetics.
Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2017286121
ISBN 9780748699919
0748699910