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European cinema and continental philosophy : film as thought experiment / Thomas Elsaesser New York : London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019.
Call No: 630(4) ELSAuthor: Elsaesser, Thomas Edition: 2019Place: New York : LondonPublisher: Bloomsbury AcademicPubDate: 2019PhysDes: x, 342 pages : 24 cmSeries: Thinking cinema; 8Subject: PHILOSOPHY AND THE CINEMA ; EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; DENIS, CLAIRE ; KAURISMAKI, AKI ; AKIN, FATIH ; TRIER, LARS VON ; PETZOLD, CHRISTIAN Summary: This groundbreaking volume for the Thinking Cinema series focuses on the extent to which contemporary cinema contributes to political and philosophical thinking about the future of Europe's core Enlightenment values. In light of the challenges of globalization, multi-cultural communities and post-nation state democracy, the book interrogates the borders of ethics and politics and roots itself in debates about post-secular, post-Enlightenment philosophy.
By defining a cinema that knows that it is no longer a competitor to Hollywood (i.e. the classic self-other construction), Elsaesser also thinks past the kind of self-exoticism or auto-ethnography that is the perpetual temptation of such a co-produced, multi-platform 'national cinema as world cinema'. Discussing key filmmakers and philosophers, like: Claire Denis and Jean-Luc Nancy; Aki Kaurismäki, abjection and Julia Kristeva; Michael Haneke, the paradoxes of Christianity and Slavoj Zizek; Fatih Akin, Alain Badiou and Jacques Rancière, Elsaesser is able to approach European cinema and assesses its key questions within a global context. His combination of political and philosophical thinking will surely ground the debate in film philosophy for years to come. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9781441182210Contents: Chapter 1: European Cinema into the 21st Century: Enlarging the Context? -- Chapter 2: Film as Thought: The 'Film and Philosophy' Debate -- Chapter 3: Film as Thought Experiment -- Chapter 4: “Europe” – A Thought Experiment -- Chapter 5: A Cinema of Abjection? -- Chapter 6: Post-heroic Narratives and the Community-to-Come -- Chapter 7: Claire Denis, Jean-Luc Nancy and Beau Travail -- Chapter 8: Hitting Bottom: Aki Kaurismäki and the Abject Subject: The Man Without A Past -- Chapter 9: “Experimenting with Death in Life” Fatih Akin and the Ethical Turn -- Chapter 10: Black Suns and a Bright Planet: Lars von Trier's Melancholia as Thought Experiment -- Chapter 11: Anatomy Lesson of A Vanished Country: Christian Petzold's Barbara -- Chapter 12: Control, Creative Constraints and Self Contradiction: The Global Auteur -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index
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The Idiots / John Rockwell London: British Film Institute, 2003.
Call No: 79 IDI ROCAuthor: Rockwell, John CorpAuthor: British Film InstituteSource: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: British Film InstitutePubDate: 2003PhysDes: 87 p. : ill. ; 19 cm; Press kitSeries: BFI Modern ClassicsSubject: IDIOTERNE (DK, Lars Von Trier, 1998) ; TRIER, LARS VON ; BREAKING THE WAVES (DK/FR, Lars Von Trier, 1996) ; DANCER IN THE DARK (FR/DK/SW, Lars von Trier, 2000) ; DOGMA Summary: Shows how The Idiots relates to the other two films in the trilogy 'Good Woman', Breaking the Waves, and Dancer in the Dark. Shows how The Idiots relates to von Trier's celebrated early work in Danish television and his foray into directing Wagner's Ring cycle at the Bayreuth Festival. The result is a rich and illuminating interpretation of the key work of one of the most fascinating and misunderstood filmmakers of recent yearsNotes: The Dogma 95, Manifesto and the Vow of Chastity: p.81-84
Credits: p.85-86
Bibliography: p.87ISBN: 0851709559
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Lars von Trier / by Jack Stevenson London: bfi Publishing, 2002.
Call No: 81TRI STEAuthor: Stevenson, Jack Source: UKPlace: LondonPublisher: bfi PublishingPubDate: 2002PhysDes: 216p. : illus. [b&w, colour] : 19cm.Series: World directorsSubject: DOGMA ; TRIER, LARS VON ; BREAKING THE WAVES (DK/FR, Lars Von Trier, 1996) ; DANCER IN THE DARK (FR/DK/SW, Lars von Trier, 2000) ; EPIDEMIC (DK, Lars von Trier, 1987) ; EUROPA (DK/FR/GG, Lars Von Trier, 1991) ; IDIOTERNE (DK, Lars Von Trier, 1998) ; RIGET (DK, Lars von Trier, 1994) ; RIGET II (DK, Lars Von Trier & Morten Arnfred, 1997) ISBN: 0851709036
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The new European cinema : redrawing the map / Rosalind Galt New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.
Call No: 71(4) "198-199" GALAuthor: Galt, Rosalind Source: USPlace: New YorkPublisher: Columbia University PressPubDate: 2006PhysDes: viii, 296 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmSeries: Film and cultureSubject: EUROPEAN COUNTRIES ; WORLD WAR II FILMS ; COLD WAR AND THE CINEMA ; GENRES ; LANDSCAPES IN FILMS ; REALISM IN FILMS ; ART CINEMA ; UNITED KINGDOM ; NEOREALISM ; REED, CAROL ; WILDER, BILLY ; BENJAMIN, WALTER ; TORNATORE, GIUSEPPE ; SALVATORES, GABRIELE ; KUSTURICA, EMIR ; TRIER, LARS VON ; MEDITERRANEO (IT, Gabriele Salvatores, 1991) ; AFFAIRE DE FEMMES, UNE (FR, Claude Chabrol, 1988) ; POSTINO, IL (IT/FR/BE, Michael Radford, 1994) ; MEDITERRANEO (IT, Gabriele Salvatores, 1991) ; UNDERGROUND (FR/GG/HU, Emir Kusturica, 1995) ; EUROPA (DK/FR/GG, Lars Von Trier, 1991) ; FOREIGN AFFAIR, A (US, Billy Wilder, 1948) ; THIRD MAN, THE (UK, Carol Reed, 1949) Summary: The new European cinema offers a compelling response to the changing cultural shapes of Europe, charting political, aesthetic, and historical developments through innovative readings of some of the most popular and influential European films of the 1990s [taken from back cover]Notes: Formerly CIP
Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-277) and index
Filmography: p. [279]-284ISBN: 0231137176Contents: 1. Mapping European cinema in the 1990s -- 2. The dialectic of landscape in Italian popular melodrama -- 3. A conspiracy of cartographers? -- 4. Yugoslavia's impossible spaces -- 5. Back-projecting Germany -- 6. Toward a theory of European space
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Call No: PERSONALITY CLIPPINGS FILE; PERSONALITY MICROFILM COLLECTIONPhysDes: ClippingsSubject: TRIER, LARS VON
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Variety international film guide 1996 / edited by Peter Cowie London: Hamlyn, [1995].
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