The notion of film consciousness is one that has played around various film and philosophical discourses without ever really surfacing as a cogent theory. Representing the first major expression of film consciousness as a tangible concept, this critical study revisits notions of memory, retentional consciousness, narrative expectation, and spatio-temporal perception while also analyzing several major films.The first half of the book focuses on understanding the elements of the film experience - and its associated consciousness - through the descriptive tools of phenomenology. The second part develops the idea of film consciousness as a unique vision of the world and as a large element in the human understanding of reality.Throughout the work, the author combines the ideas of philosophers and film theorists from phenomenology - such as Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, Bazin, and Kracauer - with the postmodernist work of Deleuze and transitional theorists Bergson and Benjamin.
- ISBN10 1336188499
- ISBN13 9781336188495
- Publish Date 1 January 2008
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 25 March 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint McFarland & Company
- Format eBook
- Pages 229
- Language English