Cinema Against Doublethink: Ethical Encounters with the Lost Pasts of World History (Remapping World Cinema)

Présentation de l'éditeur : "When is it OK to lie about the past? If history is a story, then everyone knows that the 'official story' is told by the winners. No matter what we may know about how the past really happened, history is as it is recorded: this is what George Orwell called doublethink. But what happens to all the lost, forgotten, censored, and disappeared pasts of world history? Cinema Against Doublethink uncovers how a world of cinemas acts as a giant archive of these lost pasts, a vast virtual store of the world's memories. The most enchanting and disturbing films of recent years - Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives, Nostalgia for the Light, Even the Rain, The Act of Killing, Carancho, Lady Vengeance - create ethical encounters with these lost pasts, covering vast swathes of the planet and crossing huge eras of time. Analysed using the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze (the time-image) and Enrique Dussel (transmodern ethics), the multitudinous cinemas of the world are shown to speak out against doublethink, countering this biggest lie of all with their myriad 'false' versions of world history. Cinema, acting against doublethink, remains a powerful agent for reclaiming the truth of history for the 'post-truth' era" Cover......Page 1 Half Title......Page 2 Series Page......Page 3 Title Page......Page 4 Copyright Page......Page 5 Dedication Page......Page 6 Table of Contents......Page 8 List of Figures......Page 10 Acknowledgements......Page 12 Preface......Page 14 Encountering lost pasts......Page 18 The non-fascist life: Introduction to, or conclusion of?......Page 20 Denying the denial of coevalness......Page 27 Encountering other worlds......Page 32 Cinematic ethics, ecology, colonial modernity......Page 39 A world of cinemas and the Global South......Page 41 A meeting of worlds......Page 42 Notes......Page 46 Part I: Decolonising entrances to the past......Page 50 History on film......Page 52 World systems for a world of cinemas......Page 55 Dussel, world systems, colonial modernity......Page 58 Transmodern ethics......Page 61 A Dusselian ethics for film-philosophy......Page 65 Distant viewing history on film with Dussel......Page 67 History on film as liberation philosophy......Page 69 A cinematic ethics for the Anthropocene......Page 72 Notes......Page 75 The time-image and history I: The crystal history of world memory......Page 80 The time-image and history II: Hesitation......Page 86 The time-image and history III: Deleuze’s ethics......Page 89 The time-image and history IV: Taxonomies......Page 93 Notes......Page 102 Part II: Encounters with the past that is/is not preserved......Page 106 Chapter 3: 4.54 (to 13.7) billion years: Planetary history, the natural contract, encountering earthly pasts......Page 108 Time-images: Planetary pasts......Page 109 Transnational history: Planetary – intertwined human/nonhuman......Page 112 Encountering the Earth: The natural contract......Page 114 Darkness: Seeking a (nonhuman) natural contract......Page 121 Light: Revealing the archived world memory to the Universe......Page 131 Notes......Page 134 Chapter 4: 500 years: The North Atlantic trade circuit, the racial contract, encountering others’ pasts......Page 136 Time-images: Others’ pasts......Page 137 Transnational history: The North Atlantic trade circuit......Page 138 Encountering the other: The racial contract......Page 140 Opsign, off the colonial map......Page 145 Face to face with Sebiopepe......Page 146 Crystal, Sixteenth Century colonial/Twenty-First Century neoliberal......Page 154 Face to face with an anonymous taxi driver......Page 157 Notes......Page 163 Part III: Encounters with the present that passes......Page 166 Chapter 5: 70 years: The Cold War, the social contract, encountering political pasts......Page 168 Time-images: Political pasts......Page 169 Transnational history: The Cold War......Page 171 Encountering the (eradicated) political past: The (suspended) social contract......Page 173 Crystalline carnival: Encountering the state of exception......Page 182 Crystalline Montevideo: Encountering a glimpse of a lost political past......Page 187 Notes......Page 193 Chapter 6: 45 years: Neoliberal globalisation, the personal contract, encountering bodily pasts......Page 196 Time-images: Bodily pasts......Page 197 Transnational history: Neoliberalism......Page 199 Encountering embodied pasts: The individual contract (in the control society)......Page 201 The hospital is everywhere/everywhere is the hospital......Page 204 Exhausted everyday bodies......Page 206 Everywhere is prison or school/prison and school are everywhere......Page 212 Community-oriented ceremonial body......Page 215 Notes......Page 223 A non-fascist life? Under democracy? In the Anthropocene?......Page 227 Note......Page 232 Conclusion: One or many faces of the (lost) past?......Page 224 Select bibliography......Page 234 Index......Page 255 Présentation de l'éditeur : "When is it OK to lie about the past? If history is a story, then everyone knows that the 'official story' is told by the winners. No matter what we may know about how the past really happened, history is as it is recorded: this is what George Orwell called doublethink. But what happens to all the lost, forgotten, censored, and disappeared pasts of world history? Cinema Against Doublethink uncovers how a world of cinemas acts as a giant archive of these lost pasts, a vast virtual store of the world's memories. The most enchanting and disturbing films of recent years - Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives, Nostalgia for the Light, Even the Rain, The Act of Killing, Carancho, Lady Vengeance - create ethical encounters with these lost pasts, covering vast swathes of the planet and crossing huge eras of time. Analysed using the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze (the time-image) and Enrique Dussel (transmodern ethics), the multitudinous cinemas of the world are shown to speak out against doublethink, countering this biggest lie of all with their myriad 'false' versions of world history. Cinema, acting against doublethink, remains a powerful agent for reclaiming the truth of history for the 'post-truth' era" "When is it OK to lie about the past? If history is a story, then everyone knows that the 'official story' is told by the winners. No matter what we may know about how the past really happened, history is as it is recorded: this is what George Orwell called doublethink. But what happens to all the lost, forgotten, censored, and disappeared pasts of world history? Cinema Against Doublethink uncovers how a world of cinemas acts as a giant archive of these lost pasts, a vast virtual store of the world's memories. The most enchanting and disturbing films of recent years - Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall his Past Lives, Nostalgia for the Light, Even the Rain, The Act of Killing, Carancho, Lady Vengeance - create ethical encounters with these lost pasts, covering vast swathes of the planet and crossing huge eras of time. Analysed using the philosophies of Gilles Deleuze (the time-image) and Enrique Dussel (transmodern ethics), the multitudinous cinemas of the world are shown to speak out against doublethink, countering this biggest lie of all with their myriad 'false' versions of world history. Cinema, acting against doublethink, remains a powerful agent for reclaiming the truth of history for the 'post-truth' era."--Publisher description