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Magical Suspension
The Movies as a Fun Experience
This book argues that movies appealed because they were fun. It examines the magic, myth, and memory that made films so enjoyable, and considers their significance as a cultural movement that has changed our lives. After all, the whole world is watching.
This book argues that movies appealed because they were fun. It examines the magic, myth, and memory that made films so enjoyable, and considers their significance as a cultural movement that has changed our lives. After all, the whole world is watching.
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Beyond the Skin
The Boundaries between Bodies and Technologies in an Unequal World
"We are our bodies, we have our bodies, we make our bodies." In a world of multiplying screens that transforms us into spectators, how do we find our identity? This book explores the boundary between bodies and technology to reclaim the social.
“We are our bodies, we have our bodies, we make our bodies.” In a world of multiplying screens that transforms us into spectators, how do we find our identity? This book explores the boundary between bodies and technology to reclaim the social.
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Once considered an archaic concept, the Sublime has returned to the critical agenda. This book asks why. Spanning philosophy, politics, popular cinema, and digital cultures, these essays explore the relevance and urgency of the Sublime for today's world.
Once considered an archaic concept, the Sublime has returned to the critical agenda. This book asks why. Spanning philosophy, politics, popular cinema, and digital cultures, these essays explore the relevance and urgency of the Sublime for today’s world.
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This book offers a unique collection of papers on inter-translatability, art, and ethics—subjects crucial for intercultural conversations today. It explores dialogue between East and West, asserting that any such conversation has to start with translation.
This book offers a unique collection of papers on inter-translatability, art, and ethics—subjects crucial for intercultural conversations today. It explores dialogue between East and West, asserting that any such conversation has to start with translation.
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Dossier Chris Marker
The Suffering Image
A study of Chris Marker's works, focusing on the dynamic interplay of political and subjective agency. It is this very conflict that animates all of Marker’s extensive works, which act as a “mask” or “screen” for forces that reside beyond the frame.
A study of Chris Marker’s works, focusing on the dynamic interplay of political and subjective agency. It is this very conflict that animates all of Marker’s extensive works, which act as a “mask” or “screen” for forces that reside beyond the frame.
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Practices of Abstract Art
Between Anarchism and Appropriation
Given the renewed interest in the phenomenon of abstract art, this collection of essays investigates the ambivalent role that abstraction has played in the visual arts and cultures of the last hundred years, engaging it in its increasingly diverse cultural environment.
Given the renewed interest in the phenomenon of abstract art, this collection of essays investigates the ambivalent role that abstraction has played in the visual arts and cultures of the last hundred years, engaging it in its increasingly diverse cultural environment.
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Encompassing papers from the 2014 Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film, this compilation discusses new aspects and approaches of how philosophy relates to film. It explores film’s nature philosophically and provides new insights for the film philosopher and the filmmaker.
Encompassing papers from the 2014 Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film, this compilation discusses new aspects and approaches of how philosophy relates to film. It explores film’s nature philosophically and provides new insights for the film philosopher and the filmmaker.
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Combs focuses on “cinematic knowing” as an expression of ludenic experience, and considers how this way of seeing has expanded our visual acuity and experience, including not only hindsight and foresight, but also insight and indeed even “blindsight”.
Combs focuses on “cinematic knowing” as an expression of ludenic experience, and considers how this way of seeing has expanded our visual acuity and experience, including not only hindsight and foresight, but also insight and indeed even “blindsight”.
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This anthology offers readers a greater appreciation of the thought-provoking, informative and compelling subject of the human senses and related sensuous trajectories. It will be of particular value to those interested in aesthetics and the arts.
This anthology offers readers a greater appreciation of the thought-provoking, informative and compelling subject of the human senses and related sensuous trajectories. It will be of particular value to those interested in aesthetics and the arts.
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Abstraction Matters
Contemporary Sculptors in Their Own Words
This collection of essays presents eminent sculptors of the 20th century through their “own words.” Focusing on the rich theoretical discourse of abstraction, contributors analyze the artists through the key-notions of “Sensation,” “Idea,” and “Language.”
This collection of essays presents eminent sculptors of the 20th century through their “own words.” Focusing on the rich theoretical discourse of abstraction, contributors analyze the artists through the key-notions of “Sensation,” “Idea,” and “Language.”
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Playing with Possibilities sits at the heart of all creative endeavours. This collection brings together thinkers and writers to explore the potential of play to shape who we are and the worlds we live in, asking us to celebrate fanciful approaches to living.
Playing with Possibilities sits at the heart of all creative endeavours. This collection brings together thinkers and writers to explore the potential of play to shape who we are and the worlds we live in, asking us to celebrate fanciful approaches to living.
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Pictorialism in Cinema
Creating New Narrative Challenges
Valkola extensively explores the unique phenomenon of pictorialism and its connection with other arts in film and media studies, considering a number of theoretical and practical issues of filmic narration.
Valkola extensively explores the unique phenomenon of pictorialism and its connection with other arts in film and media studies, considering a number of theoretical and practical issues of filmic narration.
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Nietzsche and Van Gogh
Imaginations of 1888
In 1888, the lives of Friedrich Nietzsche and Vincent van Gogh converged. Driven by creative ambition but haunted by madness, their creative frenzies were synchronized, culminating in psychotic breaks just days apart. This book delves into the uncanny parallels between them.
In 1888, the lives of Friedrich Nietzsche and Vincent van Gogh converged. Driven by creative ambition but haunted by madness, their creative frenzies were synchronized, culminating in psychotic breaks just days apart. This book delves into the uncanny parallels between them.
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