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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel MourenzaPublisher: Amsterdam University Press Imprint: Amsterdam University Press Edition: 0 ISBN: 9789462980174ISBN 10: 9462980179 Pages: 258 Publication Date: 21 February 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Adult education , Professional & Vocational , Further / Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter 1. Anthropological Materialism and the Aesthetics of Film Chapter 2. Soviet Film: The Giant Laboratory of Technological Innervation Chapter 3. Film and the Aesthetics of German Fascism Chapter 4. Charlie Chaplin: The Return of the Allegorical Mode in Modernity Chapter 5. Mickey Mouse: Utopian and Barbarian Conclusion: Benjamin's Belated Aktualität Bibliography IndexReviewsMourenza's theoretical elaborations are very strong and his emphasis on an embodied spectator in Benjamin's writings is especially productive. He manages to develop a coherent theory of his aesthetics of film with implications far beyond the area of film studies and valuable insights for an emancipatory political transformation of society and the role technology is able to play in such a transformation. - Hanno Berger, The Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, Fall 2020 Through detailed historical and textual analysis of primary and secondary resources, Mourenza essentially tackles the question of Benjamin's relationship with film as a medium [...] Mourenza's book offers valuable new clarifications concerning Benjamin's view of cinema as a training ground for new political sensibilities and subjective experiences of being-together with a social collective. - Will Kitchen, Early Popular Visual Culture, Summer 2020 Mourenza's theoretical elaborations are very strong and his emphasis on an embodied spectator in Benjamin's writings is especially productive. He manages to develop a coherent theory of his aesthetics of film with implications far beyond the area of film studies and valuable insights for an emancipatory political transformation of society and the role technology is able to play in such a transformation. - Hanno Berger, The Marx and Philosophy Review of Books, Fall 2020 Author InformationDaniel Mourenza is an Assistant Professor at the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies at Trinity College Dublin. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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