Vaughan, Hunter.

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.

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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.

PN 1995 / V364w 2013

791.4301