| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 224 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Translators' Note -- I. Openings -- 1. Setting the Scene -- 2. Why Lyotard and Film? -- 3. Cinema Lyotard: An Introduction -- II. Lyotard's Essays on Film -- 4. Acinema -- 5. The Unconscious as Mise-en-scène -- 6. Two Metamorphoses of the Seductive in Cinema -- 7 The Idea of a Sovereign Film -- III. Approaches and Interpretations -- 8. Imaginary Constructs? A Libidinal Economy of the Cinematographic Medium -- 9. Lyotard and the Art of Seduction -- 10. Authorisation: Lyotard's Sovereign Image -- IV. Applications and Extensions -- 11. Discourse, Figure, Suture: Lyotardand Cinematic Space -- 12. On Dialogue as Performative Art Criticism -- 13. Give Me a Sign: An Anxious Exploration of Performance on Film, Under Lyotard's Shadow -- 14. How Desire Works: A Lyotardian Lynch -- 15. Aberrant Movement and Somatography in the Hysterical Comedies of Roméo Bosetti -- Appendices -- 1. Lyotard's Film Work -- 2. Memorial Immemorial -- 3. Filmography -- 4. Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
This collection presents, for the first time in English, all of Lyotard's major essays on film, an introductory essay by the leading French scholar on Lyotard's film-philosophy, an overview of Lyotard's practical film projects written by his collaborators, and a selection of critical essays by philosophers and film theorists |
| Notes |
Vendor-supplied metadata |
| Subject |
Lyotard, Jean-François, 1924-1998.
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| SUBJECT |
Lyotard, Jean-François, 1924-1998 fast |
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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Motion pictures -- Aesthetics.
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Painting and motion pictures.
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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PHILOSOPHY -- Political.
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Motion pictures -- Aesthetics
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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Painting and motion pictures
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Jones, Graham (Lecturer in media, communications and writing), editor.
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Woodward, Ashley, editor
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| ISBN |
9781474418959 |
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1474418953 |
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1474418937 |
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9781474418935 |
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