Rancière and Film

ISBN-13: 9780748647354 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str.

Paul Bowman

Opis

The first collection of critical essays on the film work of the philosopher Jacques Ranciere. Jacques Ranciere rose to prominence as a radical egalitarian philosopher, political theorist and historian. Recently he has intervened into the discourses of film theory and film studies, publishing controversial and challenging works on these topics. This book offers an exciting range of responses to and assessments of his contributions to film studies and includes an afterword response to the essays by Ranciere himself. Contributors include* Nico Baumbach, Columbia University* Rey Chow, Duke University* Bram Ieven, Utrecht University* Monica Lopez Lerma, Helsinki University* Patricia MacCormack, University of East Anglia* Richard Stamp, Bath Spa University and James Steintrager, University of California, Irvine
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Spis treści

Acknowledgements; 1. Rancière and the Disciplines: An Introduction to Rancière before Film Studies, Paul Bowman; 2. What Does It Mean To Call Film An Art?, Nico Baumbach; 3. After the Passage of the Beast: ‘False Documentary’ Aspirations, Acousmatic Complications, Rey Chow; 4. The Spectator Without Qualities, Abraham Geil; 5. Memories of Modernism: Jacques Rancière, Chris Marker, and the Image of Modernism, Bram Ieven; 6. Aesthetic Irruptions: Politics of Perception in Alex De La Iglesia’s La Comunidad, Mónica López Lerma; 7. Inhuman Spectatorship, Patricia MacCormack; 8. Cinemarxis: Rancière and Godard, Mark Robson; 9. Jacques Rancière’s Animated Vertigo; or, how to be specific about medium, Richard Stamp; 10. The Medium Is Not the Message: Rancière, Eschatology, and the End of Cinema, James A. Steintrager; 11. Remarks by way of a Postface, Jacques Rancière; Bibliography; Notes on Contributors; Index.