Badiou and cinema / [electronic resource]
Ling, Alex,author.
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?' - using films ranging from Hiroshima mon amour to Vertigo to The Matrix to illustrate Badiou's philosophy.
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
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
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?' - using films ranging from Hiroshima mon amour to Vertigo to The Matrix to illustrate Badiou's philosophy.
Badiou, Alain
Motion pictures