Film Consciousness: From Phenomenology to DeleuzeThe notion of film consciousness is one that has played around various film and philosophical discourses without ever really surfacing as a cogent theory. Representing the first major expression of film consciousness as a tangible concept, this critical study revisits notions of memory, retentional consciousness, narrative expectation, and spatio-temporal perception while also analyzing several major films. The first half of the book focuses on understanding the elements of the film experience--and its associated consciousness--through the descriptive tools of phenomenology. The second part develops the idea of film consciousness as a unique vision of the world and as a large element in the human understanding of reality. Throughout the work, the author combines the ideas of philosophers and film theorists from phenomenology--such as Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Bazin, and Kracauer--with the postmodernist work of Deleuze and transitional theorists Bergson and Benjamin. |
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Contents
Preface | 1 |
Introduction | 3 |
1 Phenomenology and Film | 21 |
2 Phenomenological Grounding | 34 |
3 Body and Transcendence | 56 |
4 Reel Time | 81 |
The New Realm of Film Consciousness | 106 |
6 Deleuze and Cinema | 146 |
7 Marking Time | 168 |
Chapter Notes | 195 |
| 209 | |
| 215 | |
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| Title | Film Consciousness: From Phenomenology to Deleuze |
| Author | Spencer Shaw |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | McFarland, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0786433345, 9780786433346 |
| Length | 227 pages |
| Subjects | › › Performing Arts / Film / General |
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