Acinemas : Lyotard's philosophy of film / edited by Graham Jones and Ashley Woodward.
| Other author | Jones, Graham (Lecturer in media, communications and writing), editor. |
| Other author | Woodward, Ashley, editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2017] |
| Description | xii, 224 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Subjects |
| Portion of title | Lyotard's philosophy of film |
| Summary | This collection presents, for the first time in English, Jean-Francois Lyotard's major essays on film: 'Acinema', 'The Unconscious as Mise-en-scene', 'Two Metamorphoses of the Seductive in Cinema' and 'The Idea of a Sovereign Film'. Then, eight critical essays by philosophers and film theorists examine Lyotard's film work and influence across two sections: 'Approaches and Interpretations' and 'Applications and Extensions'. These works are complemented by an introductory essay by leading French scholar Jean-Michel Durafour on Lyotard's film-philosophy, an overview of Lyotard's practical film projects written by his collaborators Claudine Eizykman and Guy Fihman, and the synopsis for a later film project Memorial Immemorial, which Lyotard proposed but was not produced. Jean-Francois Lyotard was the most significant aesthetician of the poststructuralist generation, but this dimension of his thought is only recently beginning to receive the attention it deserves in the English-speaking world. He devoted a number of essays to film, and was involved in making several experimental short films. Lyotard's reflections on film offer a perspective which seeks to do justice to it as an art by focusing on its aesthetic, material qualities. His work in this area remains a largely untapped resource, with the potential for inaugurating exciting new directions in film-philosophy. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218), filmography (page 214) and index. |
| Language | Texts in English with four texts translated from the French. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9781474418935 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1474418937 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781474418942 paperback |
| ISBN | 1474418945 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic publication |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | B2430 .L964 A25 2017 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |