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Description

1. xviii, 144 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm.

Summary

1. This book shows how a masterpiece of experimental cinema can be interpreted through hermeneutics of the film world. As an application of Ricœurian methodology to a non-narrative film, the book calls into question the fundamental concept of the film world. Firmly rooted within the context of experimental cinema, Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man was not created on the basis of a narrative structure and representation of characters, places and events, but on very different presuppositions. The techniques with which Brakhage worked on celluloid and used frames as canvases, as well as his choice to make the film without dialogue and sound, exhort the interpreter to directly question the philosophical language of moving images.

Series statement

1. Palgrave pivot

Uniform title

1. Palgrave pivot.

Alternative title

1. World, metaphor, interpretation

Subject

1. Brakhage, Stan
2. Philosophy in motion pictures
3. Brakhage, Stan > Dog star man
4. Brakhage, Stan > Criticism and interpretation
5. Experimental films > History and criticism
6. Criticism, interpretation, etc

Genre/Form

1. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Contents

1. Introduction. Theoretical Aspects and Possible Perspectives in Film Philosophy ; Film Worlds Theory ; Ricœurian Hermeneutics of the Film World ; Some Preliminary Conclusions ; References -- DSM and Philosophy. DSM Through Ricœurian Hermeneutics ; The Process of Interpretation ; Phase 1: Understanding DSM's Film World ; Phase 2: Explaining DSM's Film World ; Phase 3: Critical Understanding of DSM's Film World ; Structure and Schemata ; DSM as Film World; References -- Understanding DSM's Film World. Initial Guess: Pure Visual Perception ; Symbolic Elements of the Film World ; DSM as Poetry of Vision ; The Rhetorical-Stylistic Structure of DSM ; The Rhythmic Structure of DSM ; DSM as Epic Mythology ; The Genesis ; The Conflict ; The Innocence ; The Desire ; The Death ; References -- Explaining DSM's Film World. Origin of the Film World: Deren, Duncan, and Brakhage's Heterodoxy ; History of Interpretations: Camper and Sitney ; Exegesis of Symbolic Meanings: Between Poetry and Myth ; Poetry of Vision ; Epic Mythology ; Conflict of Interpretations: Is an Analytical Approach to DSM Appropriate? ; References -- Critical Understanding of DSM's Film World. Critical Understanding of Interpretation: Further Clues on DSM's Film World ; Critical Understanding of Interpreter: Mythopoesis ; Critical Understanding of Film Philosophy: Rejection of Logocentric Metaphysics ; References -- Conclusion. A Summary of Our Journey into DSM's Film World ; A Last Remark on Ricœurian Film Hermeneutics ; References.

Call number

1. MFLP (Dog star man) 19-2665

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-140) and index.

Author

1. Baracco, Alberto, author.

Title

1. Philosophy in Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man : world, metaphor, interpretation / Alberto Baracco.

Publisher

1. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]

Copyright date

1. ©2019

Type of content

1. text
2. still image

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

Series

1. Palgrave pivot
2. Palgrave pivot.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-140) and index.

Other form:

1. ebook version : 9783030124267

ISBN

1. 3030124258 hardback
2. 9783030124250 hardback
3. 9783030124267 (PDF ebook)

Research call number

1. MFLP (Dog star man) 19-2665