Wittgenstein at the Movies (eBook)

Cinematic Investigations

Christina Stojanova, Bela Szabados (Herausgeber)

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2011
166 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-4887-7 (ISBN)

Infos

Wittgenstein at the Movies is centered on in-depth explorations of two intriguing experimental films on Wittgenstein: Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein and PZter ForgOcs' Wittgenstein Tractatus. The featured essays look at cinematic interpretations of Wittgenstein's life and philosophy in a manner bound to provoke the lively interest of Wittgenstein scholars, film theorists, students of film aesthetics and artistic modernism, and those concerned with the world of Cambridge in the first half of the twentieth century.

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Ludwig Wittgenstein loved movies, and based on his remarks on watching them, there is a strong connection between his experience of watching films and his thoughts on aesthetics. Furthermore, however, Wittgenstein himself has been invoked in recent cinema. Wittgenstein at the Movies is centered on in-depth explorations of two intriguing experimental films on Wittgenstein: Derek Jarman's Wittgenstein and PZter ForgOcs' Wittgenstein Tractatus. The featured essays look at cinematic interpretations of Wittgenstein's life and philosophy in a manner bound to provoke the lively interest of Wittgenstein scholars, film theorists, and students of film aesthetics. As well, the book engages a broader audience concerned with philosophical issues about film and Wittgenstein's cultural significance, with the world of fin-de-si_cle Vienna, of Cambridge in the first half of the twentieth century, of artistic modernism.

Autor

BZla Szabados is professor of philosophy at the University of Regina. He is co-editor of Wittgenstein Reads Weininger and co-author of Hypocrisy: Ethical Investigations and On the Track of Reason, among other publications. Christina Stojanova is assistant professor of media production and studies at the University of Regina.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 Wittgenstein at the Movies: An IntroductionChapter 2 Chapter 1. Showing, Not Saying: Filming a Philosophical GeniusChapter 3 Chapter 2. Remarks on the Scripts for Derek Jarman's WittgensteinChapter 4 Chapter 3. The World Hued: Jarman and Wittgenstein on ColourChapter 5 Chapter 4. Sketches of Landscapes: Wittgenstein after WittgensteinChapter 6 Chapter 5. "How It Was Then": Home Movies as History in Péter Forgács's Meanwhile Somewhere…Chapter 7 Chapter 6. Meaning Through Pictures: Ludwig Wittgenstein and Péter ForgácsChapter 8 Chapter 7. Beyond Text and Image: Péter Forgács and his Wittgenstein Tractatus

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.3.2011
• Co-Autor: Steven Burns, Andrew Lugg, William Lyons, Michael O'Pray, Daniel Steuer, William C. Wees
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Aesthetics, Literature, and the Arts • Communication • Cultural Studies • Film Studies • Film, Television, and Literature • Philosophy • Philosophy of Cinema • Philosophy of Language • Russian and East European Studies • Society, Culture and Literature
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-4887-7 / 0739148877
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-4887-7 / 9780739148877