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Metaphysics and the Moving Image
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Metaphysics and the Moving Image : Paradise Exposed

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Format Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10 1474493904
ISBN-13 9781474493901
Publisher Edinburgh University Press
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Aug 31st, 2022
Print length 272 Pages
Weight 570 grams
Dimensions 24.00 x 16.10 x 2.20 cms
Ksh 18,000.00
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Examines the work of transcendental filmmakers such as Bela Tarr and Terence Malick using a metaphysical framework

Introduction: The Death of God, the Birth of Film, and the New Metaphysics

Chapter One Image Breakthrough: Disclosure and Derailment in Painting, Photography, and Film
I. Art in the Wake of Metaphysics
II. The Myth of the Lumière Leaf

Chapter Two The Evolution of the Concept of "World" from Philosophy to Film
I. The World in the Palm of Philosophy
II. Film in the World’s Palm, or the World in its Own Image
III. Metaphysical Figures in Days of Heaven

Chapter Three Paradise Exposed: Psychic Automatism in Film
Primer: "While the will is off its watch"
I. The Mechanical Garden
II. Heinrich von Kleist’s Marionette Theater
III. Robert Bresson’s Filmic Models

Chapter Four Nature, Whose Death Shines a Light: Exteriority and Overexposure in The Thin Red Line
I. Introduction
II. Dramaturgy of Nature
III. A Cinematic Sublime
IV. Metaphysics of the Front

Chapter Five "Mother, I am Dumb …": The Reevaluation of Friedrich Nietzsche in The Turin Horse


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