Rancière and film /

This is the first collection of critical essays on the film work of the philosopher Jacques Rancière. Rancière rose to prominence as a radical egalitarian philosopher, political theorist and historian. Recently he has intervened into the discourses of film theory and film studies, publishing controv...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bowman, Paul, 1971- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
Series:Critical connections (Edinburgh University Press)
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Table of Contents:
  • Title Page
  • Imprint
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • 1 Rancière and the Disciplines: An Introduction to Rancière before Film Studies
  • 2 What Does It Mean to Call Film an Art?
  • 3 After the Passage of the Beast: 'False Documentary' Aspirations, Acousmatic Complications
  • 4 The Spectator without Qualities
  • 5 Memories of Modernism: Jacques Rancière, Chris Marker and the Image of Modernism
  • 6 Aesthetic Irruptions: Politics of Perception in Alex de la Iglesia's La Comunidad
  • 7 Inhuman Spectatorship
  • 8 Cinemarxis: Rancière and Godard
  • 9 Jacques Rancière's Animated Vertigo Or, How to be Specific about Medium
  • 10 The Medium Is Not the Message: Rancière, Eschatology and the End of Cinema
  • 11 Remarks by Way of a Postface
  • Contributors
  • Bibliography
  • Index