American avant-garde cinema's philosophy of the in-between / Rebecca A. Sheehan.

9780190949747 (electronic book)

New York : Oxford University Press, 2020.

English

1 online resource (296 pages) : illustrations.

PN1995.9.E96 S475 2020

791.43684

Can films philosophize rather than simply represent philosophical ideas developed outside the cinematic medium? Taking up this question crucial to the field of film-philosophy, this book argues that the films of the American avant-garde indeed "do" philosophy, and it illuminates the ethical and political stakes of their aesthetic interventions. The author traces the avant-garde's philosophy by developing a history and theory of its investment in dimensional, conceptual, and material in-betweens, clarifying how reflections on the creation and reception of images construct an ethics of perception itself. This entails the avant-garde's locating of cinema's - and thought's - ends or meanings in their means, and their advancement of an image of truth that is made rather than found, that unites with the philosophies of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Can films philosophize rather than simply represent philosophical ideas developed outside the cinematic medium? Taking up this question crucial to the field of film-philosophy, this book argues that the films of the American avant-garde indeed "do" philosophy, and it illuminates the ethical and political stakes of their aesthetic interventions. The author traces the avant-garde's philosophy by developing a history and theory of its investment in dimensional, conceptual, and material in-betweens, clarifying how reflections on the creation and reception of images construct an ethics of perception itself. This entails the avant-garde's locating of cinema's - and thought's - ends or meanings in their means, and their advancement of an image of truth that is made rather than found, that unites with the philosophies of Ludwig Wittgenstein and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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