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Bong Joon Ho - Philosopher And Filmmaker

by Anthony Curtis (Yonsei Universityâ€™S Underwood International College, South Korea) Adler

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 An original and lyrical reading of Bong Joon Hoâ€™s films highlighting the philosophical underpinnings and critical implications of his work.
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Bong Joon Ho - Philosopher And Filmmaker

by Anthony Curtis (Yonsei Universityâ€™S Underwood International College, South Korea) Adler

~~29,73€~~ 26,76€ 10% OFF

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 An original and lyrical reading of Bong Joon Hoâ€™s films highlighting the philosophical underpinnings and critical implications of his work.
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David Lean - Filmmaker And Philosopher

by Lydia Goehr

~~26,22€~~ 23,60€ 10% OFF

 A fresh account of one of the cinemaâ€™s great technicians, making the case for his value as a deep and richly thematic filmmaker.
Chantal Akerman - Filmmaker And Philosopher

by Dr Andreja (University Of California, Berkeley, Usa) Novakovic

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 The first philosophical exploration of the work of the French auteur, Chantal Akerman.
Chantal Akerman - Filmmaker And Philosopher

by Dr Andreja (University Of California, Berkeley, Usa) Novakovic

~~27,03€~~ 24,33€ 10% OFF

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 The first philosophical exploration of the work of the French auteur, Chantal Akerman.
David Lean - Filmmaker And Philosopher

by Professor Lydia (Columbia University, Usa) Goehr

~~29,73€~~ 26,76€ 10% OFF

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 A fresh account of one of the cinemaâ€™s great technicians, making the case for his value as a deep and richly thematic filmmaker.
David Lean - Filmmaker And Philosopher

by Professor Lydia (Columbia University, Usa) Goehr

~~87,87€~~ 79,08€ 10% OFF

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 A fresh account of one of the cinemaâ€™s great technicians, making the case for his value as a deep and richly thematic filmmaker.
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Jane Campion - Filmmaker And Philosopher

by Bernadette Wegenstein

~~23,84€~~ 21,46€ 10% OFF

 Throughout films and television series like The Piano, Bright Star, In the Cut and Top of the Lake, Jane Campion has constantly explored gender, subjectivity and narrative representation. In an intensive engagement with her cross-medium career, Bernadette Wegenstein examines how Campion gives a tangible and visible form to the female gaze in her exploration, deployment, and ultimately her subversion of highly formalized genres such as the period piece, the thriller, and the procedural drama. Keeping a strict focus on her directorial practice and specifically on the capacity of her cinematography to induce both empathy and estrangement, this vital new book shows how Campion is engaged in a permanent artistic and intuitive exposition of a profoundly feminist philosophical vision. Wegenstein''s work will be invaluable to scholars and students in gender and women''s studies, film studies and those on philosophy and film courses.
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Jane Campion - Filmmaker And Philosopher

by Bernadette Wegenstein

~~23,84€~~ 21,46€ 10% OFF

 Throughout films and television series like The Piano, Bright Star, In the Cut and Top of the Lake, Jane Campion has constantly explored gender, subjectivity and narrative representation. In an intensive engagement with her cross-medium career, Bernadette Wegenstein examines how Campion gives a tangible and visible form to the female gaze in her exploration, deployment, and ultimately her subversion of highly formalized genres such as the period piece, the thriller, and the procedural drama. Keeping a strict focus on her directorial practice and specifically on the capacity of her cinematography to induce both empathy and estrangement, this vital new book shows how Campion is engaged in a permanent artistic and intuitive exposition of a profoundly feminist philosophical vision. Wegenstein''s work will be invaluable to scholars and students in gender and women''s studies, film studies and those on philosophy and film courses.
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Istv N Szab - Filmmaker Of Existential Choices

by Susan Rubin Suleiman

~~25,03€~~ 22,53€ 10% OFF

 István Szabó is one of the few Hungarian filmmakers to have earned a major international reputation over the past half century. This thoughtful and original book is the first examination of Szabó''s contribution to contemporary thought, engaging the troubled history of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. István Szabó''s importance as a filmmaker lies not only in his attention to film''s formal elements but in his deep and ongoing engagement with some of the most urgent ethical and existential questions of our time. With detailed analyses of István Szabó''s major films, from his 1960s works to his Academy Award for Best Foreign Film winner, Mephisto, and on through Szabó''s last film in 2020, Final Report, Susan Rubin Suleiman focuses on four important questions pertaining to existential choice: to leave home or to stay in a communist country? To collaborate or not with an authoritarian regime? To affirm or to deny one''s Jewishness in the face of antisemitism? To seek or to give up on community in the face of individual or national conflicts? Above all, Suleiman addresses the single most important philosophical question that haunts Szabó''s work, as it does that of many other Central European intellectuals and filmmakers of our time. That is, how do individuals attempt, through the life choices they make or that are foisted on them, to create a viable self in extreme historical situations over which they have no control?
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Istv N Szab - Filmmaker Of Existential Choices

by Susan Rubin Suleiman

~~25,03€~~ 22,53€ 10% OFF

 István Szabó is one of the few Hungarian filmmakers to have earned a major international reputation over the past half century. This thoughtful and original book is the first examination of Szabó''s contribution to contemporary thought, engaging the troubled history of Europe in the 20th and 21st centuries. István Szabó''s importance as a filmmaker lies not only in his attention to film''s formal elements but in his deep and ongoing engagement with some of the most urgent ethical and existential questions of our time. With detailed analyses of István Szabó''s major films, from his 1960s works to his Academy Award for Best Foreign Film winner, Mephisto, and on through Szabó''s last film in 2020, Final Report, Susan Rubin Suleiman focuses on four important questions pertaining to existential choice: to leave home or to stay in a communist country? To collaborate or not with an authoritarian regime? To affirm or to deny one''s Jewishness in the face of antisemitism? To seek or to give up on community in the face of individual or national conflicts? Above all, Suleiman addresses the single most important philosophical question that haunts Szabó''s work, as it does that of many other Central European intellectuals and filmmakers of our time. That is, how do individuals attempt, through the life choices they make or that are foisted on them, to create a viable self in extreme historical situations over which they have no control?
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Alejandro Jodorowsky - Filmmaker And Philosopher

by William Egginton

~~25,03€~~ 22,53€ 10% OFF

 Alejandro Jodorowsky is a force of nature. At 90 years old he is still making films and is a cultural phenomenon who has influenced other artists as disparate as John Waters and Yoko Ono. Although his body of work has long been considered disjointed and random, William Egginton claims that Jodorowsky''s writings, theatre work and mime, and his films, along with the therapeutic practice he calls psychomagic, can all be tied together to form the philosophical programme that underpins his films. Incorporating surrealism and thinkers including Lacan, Kant, Hegel, and Žižek into his interpretation of Jodorowsky''s work, Egginton shows how his diverse films are connected by interpretive practices with a fundamental similarity to Lacanian psychoanalysis. Using case studies of Jodorowsky''s cult films, El Topo, Fando y Lis and Holy Mountain and more, this book provides a unique perspective on a filmmaker whose work has been notoriously difficult to analyse.
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Alejandro Jodorowsky - Filmmaker And Philosopher

by William Egginton

~~25,03€~~ 22,53€ 10% OFF

 Alejandro Jodorowsky is a force of nature. At 90 years old he is still making films and is a cultural phenomenon who has influenced other artists as disparate as John Waters and Yoko Ono. Although his body of work has long been considered disjointed and random, William Egginton claims that Jodorowsky''s writings, theatre work and mime, and his films, along with the therapeutic practice he calls psychomagic, can all be tied together to form the philosophical programme that underpins his films. Incorporating surrealism and thinkers including Lacan, Kant, Hegel, and Žižek into his interpretation of Jodorowsky''s work, Egginton shows how his diverse films are connected by interpretive practices with a fundamental similarity to Lacanian psychoanalysis. Using case studies of Jodorowsky''s cult films, El Topo, Fando y Lis and Holy Mountain and more, this book provides a unique perspective on a filmmaker whose work has been notoriously difficult to analyse.
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Theo Angelopoulos - Filmmaker And Philosopher

by Vrasidas Karalis

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 The cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is celebrated as challenging the status quo. From the political films of the 1970s through to the more existential works of his later career, Vrasidis Karalis argues for a coherent and nuanced philosophy underpinning Angelopoulos'' work. The political force of his films, including the classic The Travelling Players (1975), gave way to more essayistic works exploring identity, love, loss, memory and, ultimately, mortality. This development of sensibilities is charted along with the key cultural moments informing Angelopoulos'' shifting thinking. From Voyage to Cythera (1984) until his last film, The Dust of Time (2009), Angelopoulos'' problematic heroes in search of meaning and purpose engaged with the thinking of Plato, Mark, Heidegger, Arendt and Luckacs, both implicitly and explicitly. Theo Angelopoulos also explores the rich visual language and ''ocular poetics'' of Angelopopulos'' oeuvre and his mastery of communicating profundity through the everyday. Karalis argues for a reading of his work that embraces contradiction and celebrates the unsettling questions at the heart of his work.
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Theo Angelopoulos - Filmmaker And Philosopher

by Vrasidas Karalis

27,41€ + 10% CARD

 The cinema of Theo Angelopoulos is celebrated as challenging the status quo. From the political films of the 1970s through to the more existential works of his later career, Vrasidis Karalis argues for a coherent and nuanced philosophy underpinning Angelopoulos'' work. The political force of his films, including the classic The Travelling Players (1975), gave way to more essayistic works exploring identity, love, loss, memory and, ultimately, mortality. This development of sensibilities is charted along with the key cultural moments informing Angelopoulos'' shifting thinking. From Voyage to Cythera (1984) until his last film, The Dust of Time (2009), Angelopoulos'' problematic heroes in search of meaning and purpose engaged with the thinking of Plato, Mark, Heidegger, Arendt and Luckacs, both implicitly and explicitly. Theo Angelopoulos also explores the rich visual language and ''ocular poetics'' of Angelopopulos'' oeuvre and his mastery of communicating profundity through the everyday. Karalis argues for a reading of his work that embraces contradiction and celebrates the unsettling questions at the heart of his work.
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Luchino Visconti - Filmmaker And Philosopher

by Joan Ramon Resina

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 Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was one of Europe''s most prestigious filmmakers, who rose to prominence as part of the Italian neo-realist movement, alongside contemporaries Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini. Famous for his elegant lifestyle, as friend of Jean Renoir and Coco Chanel amongst others, his vibrant technicolour dramas are also known for their decadence and stunning display of aesthetic mastery and sensory pleasure. Looking beyond this colourful façade, however, Resina explores the philosophical implications of decadence with a particular focus on three films from the late phase in Visconti''s production, Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971), and Ludwig (1972). From the incestuous relationship between decadence and power to decadence as an outcome of straining toward formal perfection, Resina uncovers the unity and philosophical cohesiveness of these films that deal with different subjects and historical periods. Reading these films and their decadence in light of the time of filming and Visconti''s own sense of cultural doom, Resina further demonstrates the relevance of Visconti''s philosophy today and how much they still have to say to our contemporary situation.
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Luchino Visconti - Filmmaker And Philosopher

by Joan Ramon Resina

28,61€ + 10% CARD

 Luchino Visconti (1906-1976) was one of Europe''s most prestigious filmmakers, who rose to prominence as part of the Italian neo-realist movement, alongside contemporaries Vittorio De Sica and Roberto Rossellini. Famous for his elegant lifestyle, as friend of Jean Renoir and Coco Chanel amongst others, his vibrant technicolour dramas are also known for their decadence and stunning display of aesthetic mastery and sensory pleasure. Looking beyond this colourful façade, however, Resina explores the philosophical implications of decadence with a particular focus on three films from the late phase in Visconti''s production, Damned (1969), Death in Venice (1971), and Ludwig (1972). From the incestuous relationship between decadence and power to decadence as an outcome of straining toward formal perfection, Resina uncovers the unity and philosophical cohesiveness of these films that deal with different subjects and historical periods. Reading these films and their decadence in light of the time of filming and Visconti''s own sense of cultural doom, Resina further demonstrates the relevance of Visconti''s philosophy today and how much they still have to say to our contemporary situation.
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Christopher Nolan - Filmmaker And Philosopher

by Robbie B. H. Goh

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 Christopher Nolan is the writer and director of Hollywood blockbusters like The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, and also of arthouse films like Memento and Inception. Underlying his staggering commercial success however, is a darker sensibility that questions the veracity of human knowledge, the allure of appearance over reality and the latent disorder in contemporary society. This appreciation of the sinister owes a huge debt to philosophy and especially modern thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida. Taking a thematic approach to Nolan''s oeuvre, Robbie Goh examines how the director''s postmodern inclinations manifest themselves in non-linearity, causal agnosticism, the threat of social anarchy and the frequent use of the mise en abyme, while running counter to these are narratives of heroism, moral responsibility and the dignity of human choice. For Goh, Nolan is a ''reluctant postmodernist''. His films reflect the cynicism of the modern world, but with their representation of heroic moral triumphs, they also resist it.
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Christopher Nolan - Filmmaker And Philosopher

by Robbie B. H. Goh

27,41€ + 10% CARD

 Christopher Nolan is the writer and director of Hollywood blockbusters like The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, and also of arthouse films like Memento and Inception. Underlying his staggering commercial success however, is a darker sensibility that questions the veracity of human knowledge, the allure of appearance over reality and the latent disorder in contemporary society. This appreciation of the sinister owes a huge debt to philosophy and especially modern thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida. Taking a thematic approach to Nolan''s oeuvre, Robbie Goh examines how the director''s postmodern inclinations manifest themselves in non-linearity, causal agnosticism, the threat of social anarchy and the frequent use of the mise en abyme, while running counter to these are narratives of heroism, moral responsibility and the dignity of human choice. For Goh, Nolan is a ''reluctant postmodernist''. His films reflect the cynicism of the modern world, but with their representation of heroic moral triumphs, they also resist it.
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Lucasfilm - Filmmaking, Philosophy, And The Star Wars Universe

by Cyrus R.K. Patell

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 From A New Hope to The Rise of Skywalker and beyond, this book offers the first complete assessment and philosophical exploration of the Star Wars universe. Lucasfilm examines the ways in which these iconic films were shaped by global cultural mythologies and world cinema, as well as philosophical ideas from the fields of aesthetics and political theory, and now serve as a platform for public philosophy. Cyrus R. K. Patell also looks at how this ever-expanding universe of cultural products and enterprises became a global brand and asks: can a corporate entity be considered a "filmmaker and philosopher"? More than any other film franchise, Lucasfilm''s Star Wars has become part of the global cultural imagination. The new generation of Lucasfilm artists is full of passionate fans of the Star Wars universe, who have now been given the chance to build on George Lucas''s oeuvre. Within these pages, Patell explores what it means for films and their creators to become part of cultural history in this unprecedented way.
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Lucasfilm - Filmmaking, Philosophy, And The Star Wars Universe

by Cyrus R.K. Patell

29,80€ + 10% CARD

 From A New Hope to The Rise of Skywalker and beyond, this book offers the first complete assessment and philosophical exploration of the Star Wars universe. Lucasfilm examines the ways in which these iconic films were shaped by global cultural mythologies and world cinema, as well as philosophical ideas from the fields of aesthetics and political theory, and now serve as a platform for public philosophy. Cyrus R. K. Patell also looks at how this ever-expanding universe of cultural products and enterprises became a global brand and asks: can a corporate entity be considered a "filmmaker and philosopher"? More than any other film franchise, Lucasfilm''s Star Wars has become part of the global cultural imagination. The new generation of Lucasfilm artists is full of passionate fans of the Star Wars universe, who have now been given the chance to build on George Lucas''s oeuvre. Within these pages, Patell explores what it means for films and their creators to become part of cultural history in this unprecedented way.
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Douglas Sirk - Filmmaker And Philosopher

by Robert B. Pippin

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 It would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) as brilliant examples of mid-century melodrama with little to say to the contemporary world. Yet Robert Pippin argues that, far from being marginal pieces of sentimentality, Sirk''s films are rich with irony, insight and depth. Indeed Sirk''s films, often celebrated as classics of the genre, are attempts to subvert rather than conform to rules of conventional melodrama. The visual style, story and characters of films like All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind and Imitation of Life are explored to argue for Sirk as an incredibly nuanced moral thinker. Instead of imposing moralising judgements on his characters, Sirk presents them as people who do ''wrong'' things often without understanding why or how, creating a complex and unsettling ethics. Pippin argues that it this moral ambiguity and ironic richness enables Sirk to produce films that grapple with important themes such as race, class and gender with real force and political urgency. Douglas Sirk: Filmmaker and Philosopher argues for a filmmaker who was a ''disruptive not restorative'' auteur and one who broke the rules in the most interesting and subtle of ways.
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Douglas Sirk - Filmmaker And Philosopher

by Robert B. Pippin

28,61€ + 10% CARD

 It would be easy to dismiss the films of Douglas Sirk (1897-1987) as brilliant examples of mid-century melodrama with little to say to the contemporary world. Yet Robert Pippin argues that, far from being marginal pieces of sentimentality, Sirk''s films are rich with irony, insight and depth. Indeed Sirk''s films, often celebrated as classics of the genre, are attempts to subvert rather than conform to rules of conventional melodrama. The visual style, story and characters of films like All That Heaven Allows, Written on the Wind and Imitation of Life are explored to argue for Sirk as an incredibly nuanced moral thinker. Instead of imposing moralising judgements on his characters, Sirk presents them as people who do ''wrong'' things often without understanding why or how, creating a complex and unsettling ethics. Pippin argues that it this moral ambiguity and ironic richness enables Sirk to produce films that grapple with important themes such as race, class and gender with real force and political urgency. Douglas Sirk: Filmmaker and Philosopher argues for a filmmaker who was a ''disruptive not restorative'' auteur and one who broke the rules in the most interesting and subtle of ways.
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Shyam Benegal - Filmmaker And Philosopher

by Samir Chopra

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 For over forty years, Shyam Benegal has been one the leading forces in Indian cinema. Informed by a rich political and philosophical sensibility and a mastery of the art and craft of filmmaking, Benegal is both of, and not of, Bollywood. As a philosophical filmmaker Benegal brings to life the existential crisis of the downtrodden Indian, the ''subaltern'' if you will-the serf, the peasant, the woman-and imposes a distinctive philosophical vision on his cinematic reworkings of literary products. To understand Benegal''s cinema is to understand, through his lens, modern India''s continued process of political and social becoming. Focusing on the philosophical depth of Benegal''s oueuvre, Samir Chopra identifies three key aspects of his work: - A trio of films which signalled to middle-class India that a revolt was brewing in India''s hinterlands - Two sets of movies which make powerful feminist statements and bring viewers into the lives of Indian women by showcasing strong, interesting female characters - Benegal the master storyteller, who possessed of a unique fabulist style in a reboot of the Indian epic Mahabharata, a Ruskin Bond novel set during the Indian Mutiny of 1857, and a Rashomon-like retelling of an Indian experimental novel, where three perspectives converge to form a unified whole
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