Raymond Bellour

Cinema and the Moving Image

Hilary Radner, Alistair Fox

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Year: 2018
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781474422901
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Film & Video

One of the most influential figures in French film philosophy, Raymond Bellour's interests range across cinema, art, literature and philosophy, and his work sits at the critical juncture between the cinematic experience in the period of classical cinema to the new forms of spectatorship ushered in by digital media in the 21st century. With a succinct account of Bellour's oeuvre, this book provides a generous introduction to his ideas on cinema, an annotated bibliography of his work, and a six-chapter translation of a substantial and wide-ranging interview previously unavailable in English. Providing a clear, systematic account of the evolution of Bellour's thought on the nature of cinematic representation, the impact of digital technology and the response of the spectator, this is an essential guide to the work of a major contemporary thinker.

Table of contents

• Raymond Bellour
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Preface
• Introduction
• Part One Raymond Bellour
• ONE Film Analysis: Image and Movement
• TWO The Digital Challenge: From the Theater to the Gallery
• THREE Cinema and the Body: The Ghost in the Theater
• FOUR An Elegy for Cinema
• Part Two Bellour by Bellour
• FIVE Formative Influences
• SIX Film Analysis and the Symbolic
• SEVEN Thierry Kuntzel and the Rise of Video Art
• EIGHT Arrested Images and “the Between-Images”
• NINE Spectators, Dispositifs, and the Cinematic Body
• TEN Hypnosis, Emotions, and Animality
• Part Three Biography and Publications of Raymond Bellour
• Raymond Bellour (1939-): A Biographical Sketch
• A Select Annotated Bibliography of the Publications of Raymond Bellour
• Select List of Sources Cited
• Index