Description
The French writer and philosopher Maurice Blanchot (1907-2003) was a notoriously reclusive figure who wrote that his life was entirely devoted to literature. Why then have filmmakers and writers on film found so much inspiration in Blanchot's work? Blanchot and the Moving Image explores a constellation of connections between Blanchot, film and film theory and draws lines of intellectual influence to show how Blanchot's thinking of literature find its way by a kind of displacement into contemporary philosophical approaches to cinema. Three case studies examining individual films - by Jean-Luc Godard, B la Tarr and Gaspar No - draw out how Blanchot's complex notions of fascination and image can contribute to theories of spectatorship. The first book-length treatment of this theme, Blanchot and the Moving Image thus demonstrates the overlooked importance of Blanchot's work for understanding contemporary film and film theory.
Calum Watt gained his PhD at King's College London and is a Marie Curie Fellow at Universit Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris 3.
Author: Calum Watt
Publisher: Legenda
Published: 04/15/2019
Pages: 198
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.42d
ISBN13: 9781781885383
ISBN10: 1781885389
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism
- Philosophy | Movements | Post-Structuralism
- Literary Criticism | European | French
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