Can I read European Cinema And Continental Philosophy: Film As Thought Experiment (thinking Cinema) on EtoBox?

European Cinema And Continental Philosophy: Film As Thought Experiment (thinking Cinema) by Thomas Elsaesser is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is European Cinema And Continental Philosophy: Film As Thought Experiment (thinking Cinema) about?

This groundbreaking volume for the Thinking Cinema series focuses on the extent to which contemporary cinema contributes to political and philosophical thinking about the future of Europe's core Enlightenment values. In light of the challenges of globalization, multi-cultural communities and post-nation state democracy, the book interrogates the borders of ethics and politics and roots itself in debates about post-secular, post-Enlightenment philosophy. By defining a cinema that knows that it is no longer a competitor to Hollywood (i.e. the classic self-other construction), Elsaesser also thinks past the kind of self-exoticism or auto-ethnography that is the perpetual temptation of such a co-produced, multi-platform 'national cinema as world cinema'. Discussing key filmmakers and philosophers, like: Claire Denis and Jean-Luc Nancy; Aki Kaurismäki, abjection and Julia Kristeva; Michael Haneke, the paradoxes of Christianity and Slavoj Zizek; Fatih Akin, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière, Elsaesser is able to approach European cinema and assesses its key questions within a global context. His combination of political and philosophical thinking will surely ground the debate in film p

Who reads European Cinema And Continental Philosophy: Film As Thought Experiment (thinking Cinema)?

Author

Thomas Elsaesser

Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic; Bloomsbury

Published

2019

Language

EN

ISBN

9781441129499

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Philosophy, Humanities