{"product_id":"cinema-paperback-softback-9780745655680","title":"Cinema (Paperback \/ softback) 9780745655680","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCinema\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAlain Badiou (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745655680, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 5 July 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e320 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.6 x 15 x 1.8 cm, 0.433 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Fascinating ... every word of Badiou's writing radiates with a pronounced sense of exuberance for cinema, and presents the convincing case that it is the liveliest of the seven arts.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFilm International\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Provides brilliant, in-depth analyses on the techniques, styles, and themes of several films.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"The chance to truly and fully understand the nature of cinema through the eyes of someone who is clearly one of its most passionate advocates.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eMorning Star\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Badiou's unfashionable militancy is sure to continue to generate a degree of mock not-this-again head-scratching from the guardians of sober academic scholarship in the humanities, as well as from whoever might be assigned to review Badiou in say, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"While a thorough reading of this book is an intellectual investment, I would highly recommend it, particularly to those interested in the pursuit of cultural renewal by artistic means.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eEnglewood Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"There is an aphoristic concision to Badiou's thinking that is capable of producing moments of true enlightenment.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eReview 31\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"These rich and diverse pieces are all ostensibly concerned with cinema, but are ultimately far more profound than often their occasion would demand. Providing an important exploration of politics, esthetics, the visible, and cinema's relation to thinking and procedures of decision, this volume gives the reader of Badiou a sense of this major thinker's intellectual development. Spitzer's translation of this volume is a careful and meticulous rendering of Badiou's thought.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eClaire Colebrook, Penn State University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Since the 1950s Badiou has written in excess of thirty essays on cinema. It is clear that film has been a constant companion in his articulation of art as a form of truth-making event, the creation of unworldly truths. This collection brings these writings together in English for the first time, allowing us to see just how important film is for Badiou’s philosophy of the event.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eJohn Mullarkey, Kingston University, London\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eFor Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou’s account of cinema. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other and renders human presence visible, thus testifying to the universal value of human existence and human freedom. Through the experience of viewing, the movement of thought that constitutes the film is passed on to the viewer, who thereby encounters an aspect of the world and its exaltation and vitality as well as its difficulty and complexity. Cinema is an impure art cannibalizing its times, the other arts, and people – a major art precisely because it is the locus of the indiscernibility between art and non-art. It is this, argues Badiou, that makes cinema the social and political art \u003ci\u003epar excellence\u003c\/i\u003e, the best indicator of our civilization, in the way that Greek tragedy, the coming-of-age novel and the operetta were in their respective eras.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments viii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForeword ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 \"Cinema Has Given Me So Much\" 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Cinematic Culture 21\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Revisionist Cinema 34\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Art and its Criticism 40\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 The Suicide of Grace: \u003ci\u003eLe Diable probablement\u003c\/i\u003e 48\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 A Man Who Never Gives In 50\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Is the Orient an Object for the Western Conscience? 54\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Reference Points for Cinema's Second Modernity 58\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 The Demy Affair 64\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Switzerland: Cinema as Interpretation 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Interrupted Notes on the French Comedy Film 72\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 \u003ci\u003eY a tellement de pays pour aller\u003c\/i\u003e 77\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Restoring Meaning to Death and Chance 82\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 A Private Industry, Cinema is also a Private Spectacle 86\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 The False Movements of Cinema 88\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 Can a Film Be Spoken About? 94\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Notes on \u003ci\u003eThe Last Laugh\u003c\/i\u003e 100\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 \"Thinking the Emergence of the Event\" 105\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 \u003ci\u003eThe Divine Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Convent\u003c\/i\u003e 129\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Surplus Seeing: \u003ci\u003eHistoire(s) du cinéma\u003c\/i\u003e 132\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Considerations on the Current State of Cinema 138\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 The Cinematic Capture of the Sexes 151\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 An Unqualified Affirmation of Cinema's Enduring Power 162\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 \u003ci\u003ePassion\u003c\/i\u003e, Jean-Luc Godard 166\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 \"Say Yes to Love, or Else be Lonely\": \u003ci\u003eMagnolia\u003c\/i\u003e 176\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Dialectics of the Fable: \u003ci\u003eThe Matrix\u003c\/i\u003e 193\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e27 Cinema as Philosophical Experimentation 202\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 On Cinema as a Democratic Emblem 233\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 The End of a Beginning: \u003ci\u003eTout va bien\u003c\/i\u003e 242\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 The Dimensions of Art: \u003ci\u003eForgiveness\u003c\/i\u003e 252\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 The Perfection of the World, Improbable yet Possible 258\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes 261\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52470070903064,"sku":"9780745655680","price":17.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745655680.jpg?v=1785631240","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/cinema-paperback-softback-9780745655680","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}