Philosophy and the moving image
Subtitle: refractions of reality
By: John Mullarkey
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Basingstoke [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9780230285019
Subjects: Motion pictures; Philosophy in motion pictures; Philosophy
Other titles: Refractions of reality
Description: "... the first book to examine all the central issues surrounding the vexed relationship between the film-image and philosophy. In it, John Mullarkey tackles the work of particular philosophers and theorists (Žižei, Deleuze, Cavell, Bordwell, Badiou, Branigan, Rancière, Frampton, and many others) as well as general philosophical positions (Analytical and Continental, Cognitivist and Culturalist, Pyschoanalytic and phenomenological). Moreover, he also offers an incisive analysis and explanation of several prominent forms of film theorizing, providing a metalogical account of their mutual advantages and deficiencies that will prove immensely useful to anyone interested in the details of particular theories of film presently circulating, as well as correcting, revising, and re-visioning the field of film theory as a whole. Throughout, Mullarkey asks whether the reduction of film to text is unavoidable. In particular: must philosophy (and theory) always transform film into pre-texts for illustration? What would it take to imagine how film might itself theorise without reducing it to standard forms of thought and philosophy? Finally, and fundamentally, must we change our definition of philosophy and even of thought itself in order to accommodate the specificities that come with the claim that film can produce philosophical theory?"--Publisher's description, p. [4] of cover.
Notes: "Filmography : from unknowing to pluriknowing": P. 215-217.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-272) and index.

Originally published: Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, under title: Refractions of reality.
Table of contents: title: Preface : The film-envy of philosophy; title: Introduction : nobody knows anything!; title: Illustrating manuscripts; title: Bordwell and other cogitators; title: Žižek and the cinema of perversion; title: Deleuze's kinematic philosophy; title: Cavell,  Badiou and other ontologists; title: Extended cognitions and the speeds of cinema; title: Fabulation, process and event; title: Refractions of reality, or, What is thinking anyway?; title: Conclusion : code unknown - a bastard theory for a bastard act.