Film Phenomenologies

Temporality, Embodiment, Transformation

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Edited by Kelli Fuery

Type: Essays
Subject: Theory
Keywords: phenomenology, theory
Publishing date: 2024 (September 30, 2024)
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Language: English

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Hardcover • 312 pages
6 x 9 ¼ inches (15.5 x 23.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-3995-2812-2

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Book Presentation:
Presents a diverse range of phenomenological approaches that explore and expand the subject of film-phenomenology
• Presents a range of different phenomenological thinkers to extend and develop the boundaries and debates within the field of film-phenomenology
• Brings together leading scholars from the varied fields of Film Studies, Philosophy and Phenomenology, Feminist Philosophy, Media Studies, Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Political Science
• Develops a much-needed inquiry in film-phenomenology and diversity

With an interdisciplinary agenda, Film Phenomenologies investigates the emerging field of film phenomenology, linking the fundamental significance of early thinkers and related methods of phenomenological investigation to newer emphases and diverse voices, such as Gaston Bachelard, Karen Barad, Simone de Beauvoir, bell hooks, Iris Murdoch and Hermann Schmitz.

Established scholars consider various themes, including colonial duration and the politics of refusal, feeling feminist time, the exchange of play, scalar theory and scattered bodies, spectatorship and the entanglement of montage, disability, dance and speculative embodiment, AI phenomenology and breath gestures, cinematic atmospheres, the precarious intimacy of the film screen, stardom and biopics, and Black lived experience.

Divided into three parts, Film Phenomenologies offers a collective combination of phenomenological approaches, braiding classic and critical methods to explore aesthetic, embodied, ethical, and political perspectives. It is the first collection to provide a substantial engagement with diverse and inclusive directions in the field of film and media studies.

About the Author:
Kelli Fuery is Professor of Creative and Cultural Industries in Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University, California. She is the author of five books, including Ambiguous Cinema: From Simone de Beauvoir to Feminist Film-Phenomenology and Wilfred Bion, Thinking and Emotional Experience with Moving Images. Her next project examines Bion’s notion of the bizarre object and interconnected themes of hallucination, phenomenology and virtuality.

Press Reviews:
'This is a gorgeous, exploratory book envisaging diverse and plural film phenomenologies. Beautifully curated by Kelli Fuery, it responds to situated experiences, expressing commitment to the ethical and activist potential of film experience. Encompassing studies of John Akomfrah, of Agnès Varda, of play in Céline Sciamma, swimming in Moonlight, amongst many other subjects, the excellent essays here represent some of the finest writing currently in this field.'– Emma Wilson, Professor of French Literature and the Visual Arts, University of Cambridge

'Kelli Fuery’s collection Film Phenomenologies widens the scope of phenomenological inquiry into cinema. It shows how this phenomenology doesn’t remain constrained in its theoretical origins to shed light on the most pressing political and cultural issues of our time. At the same time, it provides crucial insight into how the mainsprings of phenomenology as worked out by Husserl, Merleau-Ponty, and Beauvoir remain relevant today for thinking about filmic experience. Every essay offers new revelations.'– Professor Todd McGowan, The University of Vermont

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