Film Consciousness: From Phenomenology to Deleuze

Film Consciousness: From Phenomenology to Deleuze
ISBN-10
1476610975
ISBN-13
9781476610979
Category
Performing Arts
Pages
227
Language
English
Published
2015-03-10
Publisher
McFarland
Author
Spencer Shaw

Description

The 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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