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Film Consciousness

By Spencer Shaw

Film Consciousness

By Spencer Shaw

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The notion of film consciousness is one that has played around various film and philosophical discourses without ever really surfacing as a cogent theory. Representing the first major expression of film consciousness as a tangible concept, this critical study revisits notions of memory, retentional consciousness, narrative expectation, and spatio-temporal perception while also analyzing several major films. The first half of the book focuses on understanding the elements of the film experience--and its associated consciousness--through the descriptive tools of phenomenology. The second part develops the idea of film consciousness as a unique vision of the world and as a large element in the human understanding of reality. Throughout the work, the author combines the ideas of philosophers and film theorists from phenomenology--such as Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Bazin, and Kracauer--with the postmodernist work of Deleuze and transitional theorists Bergson and Benjamin.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
228
Release Date:
2008-02-26
Publication Date:
2008-02-26
Publisher:
McFarland and Company, Inc.
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0786433345
ISBN13:
9780786433346
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Minimum Reading Age:
18
Weight:
377 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
14 cm
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