Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 316 pages)
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illustrations (black and white)
Edition:
First edition
ISBN:
1350120529
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1350120510
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9781350120532
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9781350120525
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9781350120518
Series Statement:
Film thinks
Content:
"Suspicious of what he called the spectator's "sticky" adherence to the screen, Roland Barthes had a cautious attitude towards cinema. Falling into a hypnotic trance, the philosopher warned, an audience can become susceptible to ideology and "myth". In this book, Patrick Ffrench explains that although Barthes was wary of film, he engaged deeply with it. Barthes' thought was, Ffrench argues, punctuated by the experience of watching films and likewise his philosophy of photography, culture, semiotics, ethics and theatricality have been immensely important in film theory. Focusing particularly on the essays 'The Third Meaning' and 'On Leaving the Cinema' and the acclaimed book Camera Lucida, Ffrench examines Barthes' writing and traces a persistent interest in films and directors, from Fellini and Antonioni, to Eisenstein, the Marx Brothers and Hitchcock. Ffrench explains that although Barthes found pleasure in "leaving the cinema" ́€" disconnecting from its dangerous allure by a literal exit or by forcefully breaking the trance ́€" he found value in returning to the screen anew. Barthes delved beneath the pull of progressing narrative and the moving image by becoming attentive to space and material aesthetics. This book presents an invaluable reassessment of one of the most original and subtle thinkers of the twentieth-century: a figure indebted to the movies."--
Content:
Introduction -- Chapter 1: Film as Myth and Form -- The Face as Object -- The Space of the Theatre -- The Visible Surface of Things -- Towards the Photogram -- Chapter 2: Filmology and Semiology -- Barthes and Filmology -- Semiologies of the Image -- Barthes and Cahiers du cinéma: the 1963 Interview -- Semiology and Cinema: The Image et Son Interview -- Pesaro 1966 -- Chapter 3: The Third Meaning -- Barthes, Cahiers and Tel Quel -- Obvious and Obtuse -- The Big Toe -- The Filmic -- Gesture and Tableau -- Fetishist? -- Chapter 4: Beyond 'The Third Meaning' -- The Photogram: Sylvie Pierre -- Suppressed Emotion: Georges Didi-Huberman -- Out of Frame: Raymonde Carasco and Gilles Deleuze -- The Film-Work: Thierry Kuntzel -- Towards the Punctum: Photography in Cahiers -- Chapter 4: Leaving the Cinema -- Film as Jouissance: Figure and Voice -- A Different Imaginary -- Ravishment -- Chapter 5: Photography, not Cinema? -- 'This has been': the Radical Difference between Photography and Cinema -- Blurring the Radical Difference -- Chapter 6: Dear Antonioni -- Loving Vigilance -- The Possibility of Happiness in the Modern World -- Barthes and Antonioni in China -- The Hum of Language -- Conclusion -- Barthes' Cinema -- Bibliography
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781788310659
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ffrench, Patrick Roland Barthes and film London : Boomsbury academic, 2020 ISBN 1788310659
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781788310659
Language:
English
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350120532
Author information:
Barthes, Roland 1915-1980
