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  title info:
    title: Walter Benjamin and the aesthetics of film
  name:
    name part: Mourenza, Daniel
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2020
    copyright date: 2020
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 258 pages ; 25 cm
  abstract: "Walter Benjamin is today regarded as one of the leading thinkers of the twentieth century. Often captured in pensive pose, his image is now that of a serious intellectual. But Benjamin was also a fan of the comedies of Adolphe Menjou, Mickey Mouse, and Charlie Chaplin. As an antidote to repressive civilization, he developed, through these figures, a theory of laughter. 'Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Film' is the first monograph to thoroughly analyse Benjamin's film writings, contextualizing them within his oeuvre whilst also paying attention to the various films, actors, and directors that sparked his interest. The book situates all these writings within Benjamin's 'anthropological materialism', a concept that analyses the transformations of the human sensorium through technology. Through the term 'innervation', Benjamin thought of film spectatorship as an empowering reception that, through a rush of energy, would form a collective body within the audience, interpenetrating a liberated technology into the distracted spectators. Benjamin's writings on Soviet film and German cinema, Charlie Chaplin, and Mickey Mouse are analysed in relation to this posthuman constellation that Benjamin had started to dream of in the early twenties, long before he started to theorize about films."--Back cover.
  note: Daniel Mourenza.
  note: Includes chapter abstracts.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Benjamin, Walter
      name part: 1892-1940
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
    topic: Aesthetics
  subject:
    topic: Motion pictures
    topic: Philosophy
  classification: B3209.B584 M68 2020
  classification: 111/.85
  identifier: 9789462980174
  identifier: 9462980179
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 191122
    record change date: 20200818093519.0
    record identifier: in00004161143
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng