Film Consciousness
From Phenomenology to Deleuze
Spencer
Shaw
ISBN
978-0-7864-3334-6
notes, bibliography, index
227pp.
softcover
2008
Temporarily out of stock while McFarland awaits the reprint - accepting backorders
Description
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.
About the Author
Spencer Shaw is a lecturer of rhetoric and negotiations at the International Copenhagen Business School and Open University. He lives in Copenhagen.
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