Critical theory and film : rethinking ideology through film noir /

Critical Theory and Film brings together critical theory and film to enhance the critical potential of both. The book focuses on the Frankfurt School, most notably the works of Adorno and Horkheimer, as well as associated thinkers. It seeks to demonstrate that cinema can help critical theory repolit...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vighi, Fabio, 1969-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Continuum, [2012]
Colección:Critical theory and contemporary society.
Temas:
Film noir > History and criticism.
Motion pictures > Philosophy.
Critical theory.
Films noirs > Histoire et critique.
Théorie critique.
Cinéma > Philosophie.
critical theories (dialectical critiques)
critical theory (sociological concept)
Political ideologies.
Political science & theory.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
Critical theory
Film noir
Motion pictures > Philosophy
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1 The dialectic's narrow margin: Film noir between Adorno and Hegel
  • Self-limitation in film noir
  • The noir panorama beyond spectatorship
  • Adorno goes to Hollywood
  • The negative and the whole
  • Ontology of self-deception in film noir
  • The Narrow Margin and double visions
  • A detour on ideology
  • 2 Critical Theory's dialectical dilemma
  • Horkheimer's method
  • The Kantian subtext
  • Hegel: Contradiction (not) resolved
  • From mimesis to utopia
  • Critical Theory's fetishistic disavowal
  • 3 A configuration pregnant with tension: Fritz Lang for Critical Theory
  • Beyond the doubt of appearances
  • On photos and truth
  • Framing the subject
  • Sublimation in The Blue Gardenia
  • From paranoia to repetition
  • The gaze in the frame
  • The art of excremental painting
  • Coda: The enjoyment of film in theory.

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