{"product_id":"acinemas-lyotards-philosophy-of-film-9781474418942","title":"Acinemas: Lyotard's Philosophy of Film","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis collection presents, for the first time in English, Jean-Fran?ois Lyotard's major essays on film: 'Acinema', 'The Unconscious as Mise-en-sc?ne', '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 \u003ci\u003eMemorial Immemorial\u003c\/i\u003e, which Lyotard proposed but was not produced. \u003cbr\u003eJean-Fran?ois 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Graham Jones\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Edinburgh University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/11\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.10w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781474418942","brand":"Edinburgh University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43369843261577,"sku":"9781474418942","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_ce8d822b-cde8-427a-8b9f-69c66f1579f9.jpg?v=1739859376","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/acinemas-lyotards-philosophy-of-film-9781474418942","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}