Where film meets philosophy : Godard, Resnais, and experiments in cinematic thinking /
Hunter Vaughan.
- x, 244 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Film and culture .
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-238) and index.
Introduction: where film meets philosophy -- Phenomenology and the viewing subject -- Film connotation and the signified subject -- Sound, image, and the order of meaning -- Alain Resnais and the code of subjectivity -- Jean-Luc Godard and the code of objectivity -- Conclusion: where film and philosophy may lead.
Closely reading the films of Jean-Luc Godard and Alain Resnais, Hunter Vaughan establishes a connection between phenomenology and image-philosophy to analyze the moving image and its challenge to conventional modes of thought. Striving to establish a clear foundation for the recent field of inquiry called?film-philosophy," he devises a systematic theory of film's philosophical function and its deconstruction of classic oppositional concepts, such as subject and object, real and imaginary, and interior and exterior. After merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's theory of subject-object rel.
Godard, Jean-Luc, 1930- --Criticism and interpretation. Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014 --Criticism and interpretation. Godard, Jean Luc, 1930- --Crítica e interpretación. Resnais, Alain, 1922-2014 --Crítica e interpretación.
Motion pictures--Philosophy. Cine--Estética. Filosofía del arte. Cine--Historia y crítica. Industria cinematográfica--Filosofía.