Badiou and Cinema / / Alex Ling.

Applies Badiou's philosophy to well-known films such as Hiroshima Mon Amour, Vertigo and The MatrixAlex Ling employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film scholarship: 'can cinema be thought?' Treating this question on three levels, the auth...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
©2010
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Texts
  • Introduction: Gorky’s Maxim
  • 1 Presenting Alain Badiou
  • 2 Can Cinema be Thought?
  • 3 In the Kingdom of Shadows
  • 4 An Aesthetic of Truth
  • 5 An Instant or an Eternity: Thinking Cinema After Deleuze
  • 6 Alain Resnais and the Mise en Scène of Two
  • 7 The Castle of Impurity
  • Conclusion: The Future of an Illusion
  • Bibliography
  • Filmography
  • Index