On Film

ISBN-13: 9781138796843 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 260 str.

Stephen Mulhall

Opis

The first edition of Stephen Mulhall's acclaimed On Film was a study of the four Alien films, and made the highly original and controversial argument that films themselves can philosophise. In its second edition, On Film increased its breadth and vision considerably to encompass films such as the Mission: Impossible series and Steven Spielberg's Minority Report. In this significantly expanded third edition Stephen Mulhall adds new chapters on the Jason Bourne films, the fourth Mission: Impossible movie, JJ Abrams' Star Trek and Star Trek: Into Darkness, and Ridley Scott's Prometheus (in which he returns to the Alien universe he created). In so doing, Mulhall reappraises in fascinating ways the central issues taken up in earlier editions of On Film: the genres of science fiction and thriller, the impact of digital as opposed to photographic modes of technology on the nature of cinema as a medium (and its relation to television), and the fate of sequeldom in mainstream contemporary cinema (with its emphasis on remakes, reboots and multi-media superhero franchises). On Film, third edition is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy, film theory and cultural studies, and in the way philosophy can enrich our understanding of cinema.

Spis treści

Preface to the Third Edition  Preface to the Second Edition  Part 1  Introduction  1. Kane’s Son, Cain’s Daughter: Ridley Scott’s Alien  2. Making Babies: James Cameron’s Aliens  3. Mourning Sickness: David Fincher’s Alien³  4. The Monster’s Mother: Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s Alien Resurrection  Part 2  5. Film as Philosophy: The Priority of the Particular  6. PreCrime, Precognition and the Pre-Reflective Cogito: Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report  Part 3  7. The Impersonation of Personality: Brian De Palma’s Mission: Impossible  8. The Burden of Sex: John Woo’s Mission: Impossible II  9. An Accelerated Mutator: J.J. Abram’s Mission: Impossible III  Part 4  10. The Legacy of Jason Bourne: Identity and the Sinfulness of Origins  11. The Enterprise, the Botany Bay and the Kobyashi Maru: Rebooting Star Trek with Khan’s Wrath and Red Matter  12. The Disavowal of Animation: Brad Bird’s Mission Impossible - Ghost Protocol  13. Cinematic Repetition and How to Avoid it: Ridley Scott’s Prometheus.  Index

O autorze

Stephen Mulhall is a Professor of Philosophy, and a Tutorial Fellow of New College, Oxford, UK. He is the author of The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger's Being and Time (2005, 2013), The Conversation of Humanity (2007), and The Self and its Shadows (2013).