Description
| Product ID: | 9781350176096 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Cinematic Art and Reversals of Power |
| Subtitle: | Deleuze via Blanchot |
| Authors: | Author: Eugene B. Young |
| Page Count: | 344 |
| Subjects: | Theory of art, Theory of art, Film history, theory or criticism, Literary theory, Social and political philosophy, Film theory & criticism, Literary theory, Social & political philosophy |
| Description: | Bringing together Deleuze, Blanchot, and Foucault, this book provides a detailed and original exploration of the ideas that influenced Deleuze's thought leading up to and throughout his cinema volumes and, as a result, proposes a new definition of art. Examining Blanchot's suggestion that art and dream are “outside” of power, as imagination has neither reality nor truth, and Foucault's theory that power forms knowledge by valuing life, Eugene Brent Young relates these to both Deleuze's philosophy of time and his work with Guattari on art. In doing so, he uses case studies from literature and popular film, including Kafka's Castle, Villeneuve's Arrival, and Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut. Providing important new insights for those working in literary and cinematic studies, this book advances a new definition of art as that which reverses the realities and truths of power to express obscure ideas and values beyond both our exterior and interior worlds. Bringing together Deleuze, Blanchot, and Foucault, this book provides a detailed and original exploration of the ideas that influenced Deleuze''s thought leading up to and throughout his cinema volumes and, as a result, proposes a new definition of art. Examining Blanchot''s suggestion that art and dream are “outside” of power, as imagination has neither reality nor truth, and Foucault''s theory that power forms knowledge by valuing life, Eugene Brent Young relates these to both Deleuze''s philosophy of time and his work with Guattari on art. In doing so, he uses case studies from literature and popular film, including Kafka''s Castle, Villeneuve''s Arrival, and Kubrick''s Eyes Wide Shut. Providing important new insights for those working in literary and cinematic studies, this book advances a new definition of art as that which reverses the realities and truths of power to express obscure ideas and values beyond both our exterior and interior worlds. |
| Imprint Name: | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Publisher Name: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2022-02-10 |
