Acinemas: Lyotard's Philosophy of Film

ISBN-13: 9781474418942 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 240 str.

Ashley Woodward; Graham Jones

Opis

This collection presents, for the first time in English, all of Lyotard s major essays on film, an introductory essay by the leading French scholar on Lyotard s film-philosophy, an overview of Lyotard s practical film projects written by his collaborators, and a selection of critical essays by philosophers and film theorists.

Spis treści

Foreword, Susana Viegas and James Williams; Editor’s Introduction, Graham Jones and Ashley Woodward; Cinema Lyotard: An Introduction, Jean-Michel Durafour; LYOTARD’S ESSAYS ON FILM: Acinema; The Unconscious as Mise-en-scène; Two Metamorphoses of the Seductive in Cinema; The Idea of a Sovereign Film; APPROACHES AND INTERPRETATIONS: Imaginary Constructs? A Libidinal Economy of the Cinematographic Medium, Julie Gaillard; Lyotard, Gorgias and the Art of Seduction, Keith Crome; Authorisation: Lyotard’s Sovereign Image, Peter W. Milne; APPLICATIONS AND EXTENSIONS: Discourse, Figure, Suture: Lyotard and Cinematic Space, Jon Hackett; On Dialogue as Performative Art Criticism, Vlad Ionescu; Give Me a Sign: An Anxious Exploration of Performance on Film, Under Lyotard’s Shadow, Kiff Bamford; How Desire Works: A Lyotardian Lynch, Graham Jones and Ashley Woodward; Aberrant Movement and Somatography in the Hysterical Films of Roméo Bosetti, Lisa Trahair; APPENDICES: 1. Lyotard’s Film Work, Claudine Eizykman and Guy Fihman; 2. Memorial Immemorial, Jean-François Lyotard; 3. Lyotard Filmography; 4. Bibliography; INDEX.