Phenomenology and the Future of Film : Rethinking Subjectivity Beyond French Cinema

Using Hybrid Phenomenological Approaches To Film, This Book Focuses On How Moving Images Are 'experienced' And 'encountered' As Well As 'read' And 'viewed'. Its Close Engagements With Films And Installations By Four Contemporary French Filmmakers Explore The Limits And Possibilities Of 'cinematic' Subjectivity. Tapping A Rich Vein Of Phenomenological And Post-phenomenological Approaches To Film, This Book Explores How Moving Images Are 'experienced' And 'encountered' As Well As 'read' And 'viewed'. Jenny Chamarette Brings Theorizations Of Phenomenology From Philosophy, Psychology And Anthropology, To Four Close Studies Of Experimental And Avant-garde Moving Image Works By Internationally Recognized And Widely Studied Contemporary French Filmmakers, Whose Cinematic Production Spans The 1950s To The Present Day. Acknowledging The Shifting Ground Of The Cinematic Across Multiple Media And Geographies, From 35mm Feature Film, To Video-tape, To Projected Installation And Digital Video, This Volume Asks How Phenomenological Approaches To Film Can Help Us To Rethink The Relationship Of Subjectivity To Our Future Cinematic World. Introduction -- Time And Matter: Temporality, Embodied Subjectivity And Film Phenomenology -- Knowing And Nothing: Chris Marker, Subjective Temporalities And Vocalic Bodies In The Future Tense -- Agnès Varda's Trinket Box: Subjective Relationality, Affect And Temporalised Space -- Burlesque Gestures And Bodily Attention: Phenomenologies Of The Ephemeral In Chantal Akerman -- Threatened Corporealities: Thinking With The Films Of Philippe Grandrieux -- Conclusion: Rethinking Cinematic Subjectivity And Beyond. Jenny Chamarette. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Includes Filmography.