Badiou and cinema

Badiou and cinema / Alex Ling.

This book offers an in-depth examination of cinema and its philosophical significance. Alex Ling employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film scholarship - namely, 'can cinema be thought?' Treating this question on three levels, the author first...

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Main Author: Ling, Alex
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Badiou, Alain.
Badiou, Alain
Motion pictures > Philosophy.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
Motion pictures > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Texts; Introduction: Gorky's Maxim; CHAPTER 1 Presenting Alain Badiou; CHAPTER 2 Can Cinema be Thought?; CHAPTER 3 In the Kingdom of Shadows; CHAPTER 4 An Aesthetic of Truth; CHAPTER 5 An Instant or an Eternity: Thinking Cinema After Deleuze; CHAPTER 6 Alain Resnais and the Mise en Scène of Two; CHAPTER 7 The Castle of Impurity; Conclusion: The Future of an Illusion; Bibliography; Filmography; Index.

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