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Cinema/Politics/Philosophy

Cinema/Politics/Philosophy

Baumbach, Nico

Paperback

Series: Film and Culture

PhilosophyLiterary CriticismFilm Studies

ISBN10: 0231184239
ISBN13: 9780231184236
Publisher: Columbia Univ Pr
Published: Oct 30 2018
Pages: 248
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Almost fifty years ago, Jean-Louis Comolli and Jean Narboni published the manifesto Cinema/Ideology/Criticism, helping to set the agenda for a generation of film theory that used cinema as a means of critiquing capitalist ideology. In recent decades, film studies has moved away from politicized theory, abandoning the productive ways in which theory understands the relationship between cinema, politics, and art. In Cinema/Politics/Philosophy, Nico Baumbach revisits the much-maligned tradition of seventies film theory to reconsider: What does it mean to call cinema political?

In this concise and provocative book, Baumbach argues that we need a new philosophical approach that sees cinema as both a mode of thought and a form of politics. Through close readings of the writings on cinema by the contemporary continental philosophers Jacques Rancière, Alain Badiou, and Giorgio Agamben, he asks us to rethink both the legacy of ideology critique and Deleuzian film-philosophy. He explores how cinema can condition philosophy through its own means, challenging received ideas about what is seeable, sayable, and doable. Cinema/Politics/Philosophy offers fundamental new ways to think about cinema as thought, art, and politics.

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