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This collection presents, for the first time in English, Jean-Francois Lyotard's major essays on film: 'Acinema', 'The Unconscious as Mise-en-scene', 'Two Metamorphoses of the Seductive in Cinema' and 'The Idea of a Sovereign Film'. Then, eight critical essays by philosophers and film theorists examine Lyotard's film work and influence across two sections: 'Approaches and Interpretations' and 'Applications and Extensions'. These works are complemented by an introductory essay by leading French scholar Jean-Michel Durafour on Lyotard's film-philosophy, an overview of Lyotard's practical film projects written by his collaborators Claudine Eizykman and Guy Fihman, and the synopsis for a later film project Memorial Immemorial, which Lyotard proposed but was not produced. Jean-Francois Lyotard was the most significant aesthetician of the poststructuralist generation, but this dimension of his thought is only recently beginning to receive the attention it deserves in the English-speaking world. He devoted a number of essays to film, and was involved in making several experimental short films. Lyotard's reflections on film offer a perspective which seeks to do justice to it as an art by focusing on its aesthetic, material qualities. His work in this area remains a largely untapped resource, with the potential for inaugurating exciting new directions in film-philosophy.
Contents
ForewordSusana Viegas and James Williams
Editor's IntroductionGraham Jones and Ashley Woodward
Cinema Lyotard: An IntroductionJean-Michel Durafour
LYOTARD'S ESSAYS ON FILMAcinemaThe Unconscious as Mise-en-scèneTwo Metamorphoses of the Seductive in Cinema The Idea of a Sovereign Film APPROACHES AND INTERPRETATIONSImaginary Constructs? A Libidinal Economy of the Cinematographic MediumJulie GaillardLyotard, Gorgias and the Art of SeductionKeith CromeAuthorisation: Lyotard's Sovereign ImagePeter W. MilneAPPLICATIONS AND EXTENTIONSDiscourse, Figure, Suture: Lyotard and Cinematic SpaceJon HackettOn Dialogue as Performative Art CriticismVlad IonescuGive Me a Sign: An Anxious Exploration of Performance on Film, Under Lyotard's ShadowKiff BamfordHow Desire Works: A Lyotardian LynchGraham Jones and Ashley WoodwardAberrant Movement and Somatography in the Hysterical Films of Roméo BosettiLisa TrahairAPPENDICES1. Lyotard's Film WorkClaudine Eizykman and Guy Fihman2. Memorial ImmemorialJean-François Lyotard3. Lyotard Filmography4. Bibliography
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