Cinema Derrida; The Law of Inspection in the Age of Global Spectral Media

ISBN-13: 9781433179471 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 160 str.

Tyson Stewart

Opis

Cinema Derrida charts Jacques Derrida's collaborations and appearances in film, video, and television from 1983's Ghost Dance to 2002's biographical documentary Derrida. Throughout this period, the image of "Jacques Derrida" that emerges remains spectral, constantly deferring a complete grasp of him.

Recenzje

"Through the lens of Derrida's concept of spectrality-alongside hauntology, teletechnology, and the trace-Cinema Derrida fills a crucial gap in contemporary scholarship by focusing on Derrida's collaborations with filmmakers and other visual artists. Stewart's close examination of the formal elements of these films and other media texts in relation to images of bodily presence demonstrates how spectrality serves as a means for the past to place the viewer in a position of continuous and endless mourning, with all of the ethical implications vis-à-vis the other that such mourning entails. Part media biography, part theoretical intervention, this book offers an original and generative entry point into thinking about images through Derrida and Derrida through images."-Jaimie Baron, University of Alberta

Spis treści

Acknowledgements - Introduction - The Blinding Promises of Spectrality: Derrida's Communication Theory 1st Séance: Photography's Suspense Effect - 2nd Séance: The Dead Sound Off: Mourning Others in Ghost Dance - 3rd Séance: Before the Law of Spectrality: Derrida on the Prague Imprisonment - 4th Séance: Cinécircumcision: Phantom Parts in the Archive - Conclusion: Spectral Glut - Index.

O autorze

Tyson Stewart (Ph.D., Laurentian University), Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies at Nipissing University, is an Anishinaabe film and media scholar and writer. His writing can be found in Senses of Cinema, Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, and in the edited collection The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard.