David Martin-Jones

Cinema Against Doublethink (eBook, PDF)

Ethical Encounters with the Lost Pasts of World History

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Produktbeschreibung

Cinema against Doublethink uncovers how a world of cinemas acts as a giant archive of these lost pasts, a vast virtual store of the world's memories.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317440772
• Artikelnr.: 54272987

Autorenporträt

David Martin-Jones is Professor of Film Studies, University of Glasgow, UK. His research uses philosophy to explore world cinemas. He is the author/editor of eight books, has published in numerous international journals (e.g. Cinema Journal, Screen, Third Text), and edits the Bloomsbury series Thinking Cinema.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgements
Preface
Introduction: One or many pasts?
Celine and Julie go Boating; Embrace of the Serpent
PART I Decolonising entrances to the past
1 History/Ethics: Interpreting stories from world history (Enrique Dussel)
2 Ethics/History: Hesitating in encountering lost pasts (Gilles Deleuze)
PART II Encounters with the past that is/is not preserved
3 4.54 (to 13.7) billion years: Planetary history, the natural contract,
encountering earthly pasts
Uncle Boonmee who can Recall his Past Lives; Nostalgia for the Light
4 500 years: The North Atlantic trade circuit, the racial contract,
encountering others' pasts
How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman; Even the Rain
PART III Encounters with the present that passes
5 70 years: The Cold War, the social contract, encountering political pasts
The Act of Killing; At the Foot of the White Tree
6 45 years: Neoliberal globalisation, the personal contract, encountering
bodily pasts
Carancho; Lady Vengeance
Conclusion: One or many faces of the (lost) past?
Alone in Berlin; Another Story of the World
Select bibliography
Index