American Avant-Garde Cinema's Philosophy of the In-Between

ISBN-13: 9780190949709 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 306 str.

Rebecca A. Sheehan

Recenzje

American Avant-Garde Cinema's Philosophy of the In-Between is a stunning achievement, a true gift for those of us who value-and for those who need to learn to better appreciate-the aesthetic dimension of ethical experience. Sheehan's pragmatic account of American avant-garde filmmaking so beautifully situates the work in relation to the complexity of ordinary experience, where others have been content to lift the films from the lives and worlds that brought them into existence in the first place. In showing us what pragmatists and ordinary language philosophers share with the cinematic avant-garde-namely, a concern with contingent and pluralistic conceptions of self and world, none of which can be separated from the challenges of aesthetic experience-Sheehan has opened a whole new world for film philosophy.

O autorze

Rebecca A. Sheehan is Associate Professor of Cinema and Television Arts at California State University, Fullerton. She received her Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from University of Pennsylvania and has been a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Haverford College, and a Visiting Associate Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She is the co-editor of Border Cinema: Reimagining Identity Through Aesthetics (2019). Her work on topics ranging from experimental cinema, sculpture and cinema, epistolary cinema, the biopic and border cinema has appeared in edited book collections and various journals including Discourse, Screen, and Screening the Past.