Metaphysics and the Moving Image: "Paradise Exposed" - Couverture rigide

Mowchun, Trevor

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1474493904 ISBN 13 : 9781474493901

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Metaphysics and the Moving Image is an exploration of how the medium of film inherits metaphysics, the ancient tradition of Western thought, and why it does so at the very moment philosophy sought to overcome it. As the age of metaphysics comes to a close with the Nietzschean “death of God” crisis of nihilism, the emergence of film gives birth to a new absolute value, a secular re-enchantment of the world, or ‘the world in its own image’. Film radically transforms the metaphysical paradigm from rational speculation through concepts to mechanical revelation through images and sounds―a revelation vital to the capacity for the art of film to enlighten and enthrall.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Trevor Mowchun is Assistant Professor and Director of Film and Media Studies at University of Florida. His scholarly essays and criticism have appeared in Film International, New Review of Film and Television Studies, Cineaction, Evental Aesthetics, and Senses of Cinema. He also co-wrote and directed World to Come, an experimental drama on the spiritual disenchantment that plagues a religious community in the wake of tragedy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• ISBN 10: 1474493904
• ISBN 13: 9781474493901
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible