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Alain Badiou CINEMA 2013 Softcover Very Good ~ Film, Performing Arts
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- Social Science, Performing Arts
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- Subject
- Film / General, Media Studies, Film / History & Criticism
- ISBN
- 9780745655680
- Publication Name
- Cinema
- Item Length
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- Publisher
- Polity Press
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
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- 0.7 in
- Item Width
- 5.9 in
- Item Weight
- 15.3 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou's account of cinema. He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other and renders human presence visible, thus testifying to the universal value of human existence and human freedom. Through the experience of viewing, the movement of thought that constitutes the film is passed on to the viewer, who thereby encounters an aspect of the world and its exaltation and vitality as well as its difficulty and complexity. Cinema is an impure art cannibalizing its times, the other arts, and people - a major art precisely because it is the locus of the indiscernibility between art and non-art. It is this, argues Badiou, that makes cinema the social and political art par excellence , the best indicator of our civilization, in the way that Greek tragedy, the coming-of-age novel and the operetta were in their respective eras.
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Polity Press
ISBN-10
0745655688
ISBN-13
9780745655680
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Publication Name
Cinema
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Film / General, Media Studies, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2013
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Performing Arts
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5.9 in
Item Weight
15.3 Oz
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"Fascinating ... every word of Badiou's writing radiates with a pronounced sense of exuberance for cinema, and presents the convincing case that it is the liveliest of the seven arts." Film International "Provides brilliant, in-depth analyses on the techniques, styles, and themes of several films." Publishers Weekly "The chance to truly and fully understand the nature of cinema through the eyes of someone who is clearly one of its most passionate advocates." Morning Star "Badiou's unfashionable militancy is sure to continue to generate a degree of mock not-this-again head-scratching from the guardians of sober academic scholarship in the humanities, as well as from whoever might be assigned to review Badiou in say, The New York Review of Books ." Los Angeles Review of Books "While a thorough reading of this book is an intellectual investment, I would highly recommend it, particularly to those interested in the pursuit of cultural renewal by artistic means." Englewood Review of Books "There is an aphoristic concision to Badiou's thinking that is capable of producing moments of true enlightenment." Review 31 "These rich and diverse pieces are all ostensibly concerned with cinema, but are ultimately far more profound than often their occasion would demand. Providing an important exploration of politics, esthetics, the visible, and cinema's relation to thinking and procedures of decision, this volume gives the reader of Badiou a sense of this major thinker's intellectual development. Spitzer's translation of this volume is a careful and meticulous rendering of Badiou's thought." Claire Colebrook, Penn State University "Since the 1950s Badiou has written in excess of thirty essays on cinema. It is clear that film has been a constant companion in his articulation of art as a form of truth-making event, the creation of unworldly truths. This collection brings these writings together in English for the first time, allowing us to see just how important film is for Badiou's philosophy of the event." John Mullarkey, Kingston University, London "These rich and diverse pieces are all ostensibly concerned with cinema, but are ultimately far more profound than often their occasion would demand. Providing an important exploration of politics, esthetics, the visible, and cinema's relation to thinking and procedures of decision, this volume gives the reader of Badiou a sense of this major thinker's intellectual development. Spitzer's translation of this volume is a careful and meticulous rendering of Badiou's thought." Claire Colebrook, Penn State University "Since the 1950s Badiou has written in excess of thirty essays on cinema. It is clear that film has been a constant companion in his articulation of art as a form of truth-making event, the creation of unworldly truths. This collection brings these writings together in English for the first time, allowing us to see just how important film is for Badiou's philosophy of the event." John Mullarkey, Kingston University, London, "Fascinating ... every word of Badiou's writing radiates with a pronounced sense of exuberance for cinema, and presents the convincing case that it is the liveliest of the seven arts." -- Film International "Provides brilliant, in-depth analyses on the techniques, styles, and themes of several films." -- Publishers Weekly "The chance to truly and fully understand the nature of cinema through the eyes of someone who is clearly one of its most passionate advocates." -- Morning Star "Badiou's unfashionable militancy is sure to continue to generate a degree of mock not-this-again head-scratching from the guardians of sober academic scholarship in the humanities, as well as from whoever might be assigned to review Badiou in say, The New York Review of Books ." -- Los Angeles Review of Books "While a thorough reading of this book is an intellectual investment, I would highly recommend it, particularly to those interested in the pursuit of cultural renewal by artistic means." -- Englewood Review of Books "There is an aphoristic concision to Badiou's thinking that is capable of producing moments of true enlightenment." -- Review 31 "These rich and diverse pieces are all ostensibly concerned with cinema, but are ultimately far more profound than often their occasion would demand. Providing an important exploration of politics, esthetics, the visible, and cinema's relation to thinking and procedures of decision, this volume gives the reader of Badiou a sense of this major thinker's intellectual development. Spitzer's translation of this volume is a careful and meticulous rendering of Badiou's thought." -- Claire Colebrook, Penn State University "Since the 1950s Badiou has written in excess of thirty essays on cinema. It is clear that film has been a constant companion in his articulation of art as a form of truth-making event, the creation of unworldly truths. This collection brings these writings together in English for the first time, allowing us to see just how important film is for Badiou's philosophy of the event." -- John Mullarkey, Kingston University, London
Table of Content
Acknowledgments viii Foreword ix 1 "Cinema Has Given Me So Much" 1 2 Cinematic Culture 21 3 Revisionist Cinema 34 4 Art and its Criticism 40 5 The Suicide of Grace: Le Diable probablement 48 6 A Man Who Never Gives In 50 7 Is the Orient an Object for the Western Conscience? 54 8 Reference Points for Cinema's Second Modernity 58 9 The Demy Affair 64 10 Switzerland: Cinema as Interpretation 67 11 Interrupted Notes on the French Comedy Film 72 12 Y a tellement de pays pour aller 77 13 Restoring Meaning to Death and Chance 82 14 A Private Industry, Cinema is also a Private Spectacle 86 15 The False Movements of Cinema 88 16 Can a Film Be Spoken About? 94 17 Notes on The Last Laugh 100 18 "Thinking the Emergence of the Event" 105 19 The Divine Comedy and The Convent 129 20 Surplus Seeing: Histoire(s) du cinéma 132 21 Considerations on the Current State of Cinema 138 22 The Cinematic Capture of the Sexes 151 23 An Unqualified Affirmation of Cinema's Enduring Power 162 24 Passion , Jean-Luc Godard 166 25 "Say Yes to Love, or Else be Lonely": Magnolia 176 26 Dialectics of the Fable: The Matrix 193 27 Cinema as Philosophical Experimentation 202 28 On Cinema as a Democratic Emblem 233 29 The End of a Beginning: Tout va bien 242 30 The Dimensions of Art: Forgiveness 252 31 The Perfection of the World, Improbable yet Possible 258 Notes 261
Copyright Date
2013
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
791.4301
Dewey Edition
23
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