Shooting the Moon - Couverture souple

Willems, Brian

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 178279848X ISBN 13 : 9781782798484

Editeur : John Hunt Publishing, 2015

Synopsis

Films about the moon show that even after the lunar landing of 1969 our celestial neighbor has lost none of its aptitude for being made of green cheese. In fact, as soon as you put the moon on screen it is lost. This is equally true for a wide range of moon films, including the theatricality of Méliès, the incredulity of camp, the illegibility of footage shot by Apollo astronauts and the revisionary history of Transformers 3. Yet, as paradoxical as it might seem at first, it is only when we ""lose sight"" of the moon that lunar truths begin to come forth. This is because fantastic elements of the moonby their mere absurditycan indicate non-fantastic elements. However, what is of interest here is not realistic or fantastic lunar truths but rather that the moon is an object which invites, or even demands, more than one truth at once.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Brian Willems is assistant professor of literature and film theory at the University of Split, Croatia. He is the author of Hopkins and Heidegger and Facticity, Poverty and Clones.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Hunt Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 178279848X
• ISBN 13: 9781782798484
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 222
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• Personne responsable: non disponible