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Where Film Meets Philosophy

Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking

  • Paperback
  • 264 pages
  • Publisher: Columbia University Press
  • 15 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

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Hunter Vaughan interweaves phenomenology and semiotics to analyze cinema's ability to challenge conventional modes of thought. Merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception with Gilles Deleuze's image-philosophy, Vaughan applies a rich theoretical framework to a comparative analysis of Jean-Luc Godard's films, which critique the audio-visual illusion of empirical observation (objectivity), and the cinema of Alain Resnais, in which the sound-image generates innovative portrayals of individual experience (subjectivity). Both filmmakers radically upend conventional film practices and challenge philosophical traditions to alter our understanding of the self, the world, and the relationship between the two. Films discussed in detail include Godard's Vivre sa vie (1962), Contempt (1963), and 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (1967); and Resnais's Hiroshima, mon amour (1959), Last Year at Marienbad (1961), and The War Is Over (1966). Situating the formative works of these filmmakers within a broader philosophical context, Vaughan pioneers a phenomenological film semiotics linking two disparate methodologies to the mirrored achievements of two seemingly irreconcilable artists.
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  • Author

    Hunter Vaughan

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Columbia University Press

  • Published

    February 2013

  • Weight

    360g

  • Page Count

    264

  • Dimensions

    15 x 22.7 x 1.6 cm

  • ISBN

    9780231161336

  • ISBN-10

    0231161336

  • Eden Code

    4565580

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