Where Film Meets Philosophy: Godard, Resnais, and Experiments in Cinematic Thinking

by Hunter Vaughan

Book Overview

Hunter Vaughan interweaves phenomenology and semiotics to analyze cinema's ability to challenge conventional modes of thought. Merging Maurice Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology of perception with Gilles Deleuze's image-philosophy, Vaughan applies a rich theoretical framework to a comparative analysis of Jean-Luc Godard's films, which critique the audio-visual illusion of empirical observation (objectivity), and the cinema of Alain Resnais, in which the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231161336
• ISBN13: 9780231161336
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher