The Real of Reality: The Realist Turn in Contemporary Film Theory PDF Download

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Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004466762
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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Reality has become an increasingly prominent topic in contemporary philosophy. The book’s contributors are responding to the challenge to use the philosophically underexplored potential of film to disclose what the editors propose to call “the real of reality.”

Author: Christine Reeh-Peters
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527567427
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 186

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This book develops the so-called “solaristic ontology” of film by building a philosophical system based on an inquiry into the nature of film, being and reality. This “solaristic system” appropriates the aesthetic ideas and principles of thought present in the 1972 sci-fi movie Solaris by Andrei Tarkovsky. This movie is the main center of analysis here since it is highly symptomatic of the medium’s philosophical self-reflexivity and its intriguing correlation with reality and being. The “solaristic science” is a fictional science introduced in the movie’s diegesis and dedicated to the investigation of the planet Solaris, an unattainable challenge. In this sense, the solaristic system closes the film’s narrative by telling a philosophical story on the planet Solaris. The book thus details a philosophical form of concept art, and, at the same time, builds on previous results of film philosophy, as well as the speculative turn in contemporary philosophy.

Author: Allan Casebier
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521411325
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 184

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Film and Phenomenology presents a new approach to the question of cinematic representation, which runs contrary to the course of contemporary film theory.Film and Phenomenology presents a new approach to the question of cinematic representation which runs contrary to the course of contemporary film theory.

Author: Ian Aitken
Publisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 1526141744
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 255

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‘Realist film theory and cinema’ embraces studies of cinematic realism and 19th century tradition, the realist film theories of Lukács, Grierson, Bazin and Kracauer, and the relationship of realist film theory to the general field of film theory and philosophy. This is the first book to attempt a rigorous and systematic application of realist film theory to the analysis of particular films. The book suggests new ways forward for a new series of studies in cinematic realism, and for a new form of film theory based on realism. It stresses the importance of the question of realism both in film studies and in contemporary life. Aitken’s work will be of interest to scholars and advanced students of film studies, literary studies, media studies, cultural studies and philosophy.

Author: Antony Easthope
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317895665
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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During the twentieth century, the medium of film has developed as a means of understanding the complexity of modern life. Since 1968, film theory has concentrated not so much on theme or content but on the deeper question of how the medium works on its viewer. Film theory has been profoundly influenced by the writings of such modern thinkers as Saussure, Freud, Lacan, Anthusser, Derrida and Kristeva. It combines modes of textual analysis relating to linguistics and semiology, a Marxist reading of ideology, and theories of subjectivity, the spectator and gender redefined by psychoanalysis. This judicious selection from key work by Stephen Heath, Fredric Jameson, Laura Mulvey, Mary Ann Doanne and others, represents some of the most important contemporary writing about film. It provides a consistent and developing analysis that will be of interest to students concerned with film and film studies, as well as students of cultural, media and communication studies.

Author: Markus Gabriel
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1509546626
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 385

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From Ancient philosophy to contemporary theories of fiction, it is a common practice to relegate illusory appearances to the realm of the non-existent, like shadows on the wall of Plato’s cave. Contrary to this traditional mode of drawing a metaphysical distinction between reality and fiction, Markus Gabriel argues that the realm of the illusory, fictional, imaginary, and conceptually indeterminate is as real as it gets. Being in touch with reality need not and cannot require that we overcome appearances in order to grasp a meaningless reality which exists ‘out there,’ outside and maybe even beyond our minds. Human mindedness (Geist) exists in the mode of fictions through which we achieve self-consciousness. This novel approach provides a fresh perspective on our existence as subjects who lead their lives in the light of self-conceptions. Fictions also develops a social ontology according to which the social unfolds as a constant renegotiation of dissent, of different points of view onto the same reality. Thus, we cannot ever hope to ground human society in a fiction-free realm of objective transactions. However, this does not mean that truth and reality are somehow outdated concepts. On the contrary, we need to enlarge our conception of reality so that it fully encompasses ourselves as specifically minded social animals. This major new work of philosophy will be of interest to students and scholars throughout the humanities and to anyone interested in contemporary philosophy and social thought.

Author: Irving Singer
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262692489
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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A new look at film that succeeds in combining the realist and formalist sides of an ongoing debate. In Reality Transformed Irving Singer offers a new approach to the philosophy of film. Returning to the classical debate between realists and formalists, he shows how the opposing positions may be harmonized and united. Singer concentrates on questions about appearance and reality, the visual and the literary, and the interplay between communication as a goal and alienation as a hazard in films of every sort. In three exemplary chapters, he provides suggestive readings of Woody Allen's The Purple Rose of Cairo, Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice, and Jean Renoir's The Rules of the Game. Reality Transformed will interest the general reader as well as students in all fields related to film studies.

Author: Anne Jerslev
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 9788772897165
Category : Realism in films
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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The 2002 theme of 'Northern Lights' is dedicated to the representation of reality in film, TV and new media -- a question of new importance in modern film and media, where a new wave of realism has dominated cinema and reality -- TV became a mass phenomena on both TV and the internet. Eleven articles by Danish, British, and American film and media researchers focus on two sub-themes: 'Film and Realism' deals theoretically with film realism and analyses classic films and modern Danish Dogma films; 'Documentary Forms, Reality TV and New Media' treats new forms of non-fiction film, TV and on the internet in a both theoretical and historical perspective.

Author: Jon Wagner
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781793530165
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Reality's Written Language: A Critical Anthology of Classical and Contemporary Film Theory combines fundamental sources in classical and contemporary film theory with extensive commentary to provide readers with tools for understanding the philosophical, aesthetic, and historical evolution of film and its cultural critique. The aim of the anthology is to make the critical complexity of film theory accessible to students, readers, and creators without oversimplifying its crucial demands. By encouraging the curiosity and confidence required to think critically, the book hopes to challenge easy dichotomies between theory and practice and to foster more articulate writing about film and more reflective filmmaking. The volume features seminal texts in classical theory from realism, formalism, classical Hollywood and genre evolution to auteurism and the art film, and follows with fundamental contemporary discourses of structuralism, psychoanalysis, feminism, post-structuralism, and post-modernism. Extensively classroom-tested, the readings, the accompanying lecture commentary, and the filmographies are appropriate for advanced undergraduate courses in film theory and visual studies as well as stimulating for graduate study across the disciplines. The anthology is also rewarding to non-academic readers interested in cinema. Jon Wagner holds a Ph.D. from the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California where he is a visiting professor of film theory. A scholar, translator, and poet, Dr. Wagner is a core professor of critical studies at California Institute of the Arts where he co-founded and directed the MFA Writing Program. He is currently completing a collaborative manuscript on the French poets Saint-John Perse and Yves Bonnefoy. Denise Spampinato earned her Ph.D. in comparative literature at the University of California, Irvine. She has worked as an international freelance curator and as an adjunct professor to programs in critical studies, art, and writing at Otis College of Art and Design, California Institute of the Arts, University of California, Los Angeles, and University of California, Irvine. A 2015-2016 Fulbright Fellow to Naples, Italy, Dr. Spampinato is completing a book centered on the dialectical relationship between city, cinema, and the cinematic in Naples as seen from the perspective of foreign visitors and local observers.

Author: Siegfried Kracauer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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An overview on film theory.