Critical theory and film rethinking ideology through film noir
Critical Theory and Film brings together critical theory and film to enhance the critical potential of both. The book focuses on the Frankfurt School, most notably the works of Adorno and Horkheimer, as well as associated thinkers. It seeks to demonstrate that cinema can help critical theory repolit...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Continuum
[2012]
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| Colección: | EBSCO Academic eBook Collection Complete.
Critical theory and contemporary society. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b35611315*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1 The dialectic's narrow margin: Film noir between Adorno and Hegel
- Self-limitation in film noir
- The noir panorama beyond spectatorship
- Adorno goes to Hollywood
- The negative and the whole
- Ontology of self-deception in film noir
- The Narrow Margin and double visions
- A detour on ideology
- 2 Critical Theory's dialectical dilemma
- Horkheimer's method
- The Kantian subtext
- Hegel: Contradiction (not) resolved
- From mimesis to utopia
- Critical Theory's fetishistic disavowal
- 3 A configuration pregnant with tension: Fritz Lang for Critical Theory
- Beyond the doubt of appearances
- On photos and truth
- Framing the subject
- Sublimation in The Blue Gardenia
- From paranoia to repetition
- The gaze in the frame
- The art of excremental painting
- Coda: The enjoyment of film in theory.
