Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image: Ethics and Emergence to Being in Film

by Sam B. Girgus

Book Overview

In Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image, Sam B. Girgus relates Laura Mulvey's theory of "delayed cinema" to ideas on time and the relationship to the other in the writings of Jean-Luc Nancy, Emmanuel Levinas and Julia Kristeva, among others. The sustained tension in film between, in Mulvey's phrase, "stillness and the moving image" enacts a drama of existential emergence. The stillness of the framed image in relation to the moving...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474436234
• ISBN13: 9781474436236
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.3"