Alejandro Jodorowsky

Filmmaker and Philosopher

William Egginton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

192 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-14477-4 (ISBN)

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Alejandro Jodorowsky is a force of nature. At 90 years old he is still making films and is a cultural phenomenon who has influenced other artists as disparate as John Waters and Yoko Ono. Although his body of work has long been considered disjointed and random, William Egginton claims that Jodorowsky’s writings, theatre work and mime, and his films, along with the therapeutic practice he calls psychomagic, can all be tied together to form the philosophical programme that underpins his films.

Incorporating surrealism and thinkers including Lacan, Kant, Hegel, and Žižek into his interpretation of Jodorowsky's work, Egginton shows how his diverse films are connected by interpretive practices with a fundamental similarity to Lacanian psychoanalysis. Using case studies of Jodorowsky's cult films, El Topo, Fando y Lis and Holy Mountain and more, this book provides a unique perspective on a filmmaker whose work has been notoriously difficult to analyse.

William Egginton is the Decker Professor in the Humanities and Director of the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins University, USA. His research and teaching focus on literature and philosophy, psychoanalysis, the foundations of physics, early modern European literature and thought, and modern Latin American literature.

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction
2. The Violence of Desire
3. Staging the Fantasy
4. Subjective Destitution

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Erscheinungsdatum	03.01.2024
Reihe/Serie	Philosophical Filmmakers
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	138 x 216 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-14477-0 / 1350144770
ISBN-13	978-1-350-14477-4 / 9781350144774
Zustand	Neuware