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

Sam B. Girgus

Published by Edinburgh University Press 2018

Time, Existential Presence and the Cinematic Image

Ethics and Emergence to Being in Film

Sam B. Girgus

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474436250

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Uses philosophical thinking on delayed cinema, time and ethics to provide a new approach to reading film

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 image opens “free” cinematic time and space for a fresh engagement with crucial ethical and cultural issues. With close readings of films such as The Bicycle Thieves, Two Days, One Night, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada, The Revenant and The Age of Innocence, this book proposes a fresh approach to reading film in the context of emerging existential presence and the ethical imperative.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	iii
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Introduction – Time, Existential Presence, and the Cinematic Image: Ethics and Emergence to Being in Film Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART I The Otherness of Existence and “Spacious Temporality”: Delayed Cinema and Freedom
CHAPTER 1 Delayed Cinema and “This Space-Time of Freedom”: De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves (1948) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
CHAPTER 2 La Demora (2012) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	56
CHAPTER 3 Existence and Ethics in the Dardenne Brothers’ Two Days, One Night (2015) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
PART II Western Spaces: Landscapes of Denial, Death, and Freedom
CHAPTER 4 El Viaje: Tommy Lee Jones and the Violent Times of the Mission to Mexico Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
CHAPTER 5 The American Way: Time, Death and Resurrection in Iñárritu’s Western Masterpiece Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	127
Epilogue – Time, Spacing, and the Body in Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence (1993) Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	188

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 200
Illustrations
- Other: 10 B/W illustrations
Keywords: Film, Media & Cultural Studies

eBook

Published: April 5, 2022
ISBN: 9781474436250