Where Film Meets Philosophy
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Where Film Meets Philosophy

Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking

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eBook - ePub

Where Film Meets Philosophy

Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking

About this book

Hunter Vaughan interweaves phenomenology and semiotics to analyze cinema's ability to challenge conventional modes of thought. Merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception with Gilles Deleuze's image-philosophy, Vaughan applies a rich theoretical framework to a comparative analysis of Jean-Luc Godard's films, which critique the audio-visual illusion of empirical observation (objectivity), and the cinema of Alain Resnais, in which the sound-image generates innovative portrayals of individual experience (subjectivity). Both filmmakers radically upend conventional film practices and challenge philosophical traditions to alter our understanding of the self, the world, and the relationship between the two. Films discussed in detail include Godard's Vivre sa vie (1962), Contempt (1963), and 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967); and Resnais's Hiroshima, mon amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), and The War Is Over (1966). Situating the formative works of these filmmakers within a broader philosophical context, Vaughan pioneers a phenomenological film semiotics linking two disparate methodologies to the mirrored achievements of two seemingly irreconcilable artists.

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Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9780231530828

Table of contents

  1. Cover 
  2. Half title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents 
  8. List of Illustrations
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Introduction: Where Film Meets Philosophy
  11. 1. Phenomenology and the Viewing Subject
  12. 2. Film Connotation and the Signified Subject
  13. 3. Sound, Image, and the Order of Meaning
  14. 4. Alain Resnais and the Code of Subjectivity
  15. 5. Jean-Luc Godard and the Code of Objectivity
  16. Conclusion: Where Film and Philosophy May Lead
  17. Notes
  18. Bibliography
  19. Index
  20. Series List

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