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Badiou and Cinema / Alex Ling.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2010Description: 1 online resource (224 p.)Content type:
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  • 9780748641130
  • 9780748644483
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.4301 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Texts -- Introduction: Gorky’s Maxim -- 1 Presenting Alain Badiou -- 2 Can Cinema be Thought? -- 3 In the Kingdom of Shadows -- 4 An Aesthetic of Truth -- 5 An Instant or an Eternity: Thinking Cinema After Deleuze -- 6 Alain Resnais and the Mise en Scène of Two -- 7 The Castle of Impurity -- Conclusion: The Future of an Illusion -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index
Summary: Applies Badiou's philosophy to well-known films such as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Vertigo and The MatrixAlex Ling employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film scholarship: 'can cinema be thought?' Treating this question on three levels, the author first asks if we can really think what cinema is, at an ontological level. Secondly, he investigates whether cinema can actually think for itself; that is, whether or not it is truly 'artistic'. Finally, he explores in what ways we can rethink the consequences of the fact that cinema thinks.In answering these questions, the author uses well-known films ranging to illustrate Badiou's philosophy and to consider the ways in which his work can be extended, critiqued and reframed with respect to the medium of cinema.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Texts -- Introduction: Gorky’s Maxim -- 1 Presenting Alain Badiou -- 2 Can Cinema be Thought? -- 3 In the Kingdom of Shadows -- 4 An Aesthetic of Truth -- 5 An Instant or an Eternity: Thinking Cinema After Deleuze -- 6 Alain Resnais and the Mise en Scène of Two -- 7 The Castle of Impurity -- Conclusion: The Future of an Illusion -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index

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Applies Badiou's philosophy to well-known films such as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Vertigo and The MatrixAlex Ling employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film scholarship: 'can cinema be thought?' Treating this question on three levels, the author first asks if we can really think what cinema is, at an ontological level. Secondly, he investigates whether cinema can actually think for itself; that is, whether or not it is truly 'artistic'. Finally, he explores in what ways we can rethink the consequences of the fact that cinema thinks.In answering these questions, the author uses well-known films ranging to illustrate Badiou's philosophy and to consider the ways in which his work can be extended, critiqued and reframed with respect to the medium of cinema.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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