Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez

by Adrian Martin

Where is film analysis at today? What is cinema theory up to, behind our backs? The field, as professionally defined (at least in the Anglo-American academic world), is presently divided between contextual historians who turn to broad formations of modernity, and stylistic connoisseurs who call for a return to old-fashioned things like authorial vision, tone, and mise en sc ne. But there are other, vital, inventive currents happening - in criticism,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0615719465
• ISBN13: 9780615719467
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Punctum Books
• Length: 54 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.0" x 8.0"