
Subjectivity
Filmic Representation and the Spectator's Experience
Dominique Chateau(Editor)
Pallas Publications (Publisher)
Published on 22. August 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
272 pages
978-90-8964-317-9 (ISBN)
Description
Subjectivity is a central concept in film theory, philosophy and cultural studies. It was also a key term in the reception of the Nouvelle Vague film movement in France and Italy from the start of 1945. This timely volume explores the ways in which the concept of subjectivity has made its way into film theory, history, practice and criticism, as well as the confrontations of the subject with this rapidly changing medium.Contributors to this timely study include Francesco Casetti, Gregory Currie, Marina Grzinic, Maria Klonaris and Katerina Thomadaki, Jacinto Lageira, Jose Moure, Pere Salabert, Celine Scemama, Karl Sierek, Vivian Sobchack, and Pierre Taminiaux. Their illuminating essays are a testimony to their profound involvement in the subjectivity debate, enriching our perception of film history and our understanding of the medium.
Reviews / Votes
Subjectivity in Film is a timely and vital contribution to film and cultural studies. Written from a variety of backgrounds and national traditions, by way of theory or applied analysis each chapter reflects on what it means to experience cinema: how it shapes our consciousness, how we live with it, and how we invent our lives through its history and ever-changing aspect and form. The book opens us onto new and unforeseen avenues of inquiry. - [-]Tom Conley, Lowell Professor of Romance Languages and Visual & Environmental Studies, Harvard University [-][-]"In this wide-ranging collection, Dominique Chateau brings a fine group of scholars to explore the diverse, contested meanings and manifestations of subjectivity in film." - Richard Shusterman, Florida Atlantic University and author of Pragmatist Aesthetics[-]More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Amsterdam
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-90-8964-317-9 (9789089643179)
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Person
Dominique Chateau is Emeritus Professor of Aesthetics and Cinema at the Sorbonne School of the Arts at Pantheon-Sorbonne University, Paris I.
Content
Editorial, Acknowledgments, Introduction: Rethinking Subjectivity in Film, Part I From Mind to Film, from Film to Mind, Part II Ways of Expressing Subjectivity, Part III Subjectivity and the Epistemology of Film Studies, Part IV Conversation, Notes, General Bibliography, Notes on Contributors, Index of Names, Index of Film Titles, Index of Subjects