REFRACTIONS OF REALITY: PHILOSOPHY AND THE MOVING IMAGE

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This is the first book to explore all central issues surrounding the relationship between the filmimage and philosophy. It tackles the work of particular philosophers of film (Żiżek Deleuze and Cavell) as well as general philosophical positions (Cognitivist and Culturalist) and analyses the ability of film to teach and crAcknowledgements Preface: The FilmEnvy of Philosophy Introduction: Nobody Knows Anything! Illustrating Manuscripts Bordwell and Other Cogitators Żiżek and the Cinema of Perversion Deleuzes Kinematic Philosophy Cavell Badiou and Other Ontologists Expanded Cognitions and the Speeds of Cinema Fabulation Process and Event Refractions of Reality Or What is Thinking Anyway? Conclusion: Code Unknown A Bastard Theory for a Bastard Art Notes BiIn this engaging comprehensive incisive work Mullarkey addresses whether film can philosophize on its own adding something original rather than simply illustrating concepts that philosophers extract from their own discourse An indispensible work for students/scholars in philosophy of film/art aesthetics and film studies. D.W.Rothermel CHOICE/...addresses the question of the relation between art and philosophy the ageold problem of aesthetics in an entirely original manner by examining how film changes the terms of this debate./...to summarize Mullarkeys text in terms of his criticism of other film theorists does not do justice to the intricate readings and impressive scope of Mullarkeys overall approach. His engagement with figures such as Jacques RanciĘre Edward Branigan Joseph Anderson Badiou and Cavell (to name a few) lead him to fascinating partial observations on the nature of film./The gesture Mullarkey employs a graceful seamless move from critical analysis to constructive observation suggests a pluralistic strategy based on an ethics of affirmation and acknowledgement./...as a treatment of the question what does film mean for philosophy? Mullarkey offers an intricate and considered study with important consequences for philosophy in terms of what can be said and what may be gestured to only by attention to what is left unsaid that is to say through a constellation of plural and variably flawed refractions. /Amanda Dennis in The International Journal for Philosophical Studies/This book in some sense brings to an end a certain phase of film theorizing and instead looks toward something quite new: how theories have been written and how they may be written how they fall into types how these types are filling out not a logical grid but a grid of the anxieties we feel and the defenses we erect toward the everyday. A wonderful groundbreaking book. /Edward Branigan (University of California Santa Barbara) author of Projecting a Camera: LanguageGames in Film Theory and Narrative Comprehension and Film/Highly original both in its concern for avoiding the illustrative approach generally favoured by philosophers and in the speculative ambition that looms beh

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