Can I read Cinema/Politics/Philosophy (Film and Culture Series) on EtoBox?

Cinema/Politics/Philosophy (Film and Culture Series) by Nico [VNV] Baumbach is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Cinema/Politics/Philosophy (Film and Culture Series) about?

Almost fifty years ago, Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni published the manifesto "Cinema/Ideology/Criticism," helping to set the agenda for a generation of film theory that used cinema as a means of critiquing capitalist ideology. In recent decades, film studies has moved away from politicized theory, abandoning the productive ways in which theory understands the relationship between cinema, politics, and art. In__Cinema/Politics/Philosophy__, Nico Baumbach revisits the much-maligned tradition of seventies film theory to reconsider: What does it mean to call cinema political?In this concise and provocative book, Baumbach argues that we need a new philosophical approach that sees cinema as both a mode of thought and a form of politics. Through close readings of the writings on cinema by the contemporary continental philosophers Jacques Rancire, Alain Badiou, and Giorgio Agamben, he asks us to rethink both the legacy of ideology critique and Deleuzian film-philosophy. He explores how cinema can condition philosophy through its own means, challenging received ideas about what is seeable, sayable, and doable.__Cinema/Politics/Philosophy__offers fundamental new ways to think about c

Who reads Cinema/Politics/Philosophy (Film and Culture Series)?

Author

Nico [VNV] Baumbach

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2018

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231184236

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Philosophy, History, Political Science