Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema PDF
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F I L M WO RL DS A PHILOSOPHICAL AESTHETICS OF CINEMA DANIEL YACAVONE FILM WORLDS C6580.indb i 10/9/14 9:12 AM C6580.indb ii 10/9/14 9:12 AM DANIEL YACAVONE F I L M WO RL DS A PHILOSOPHICAL AESTHETICS OF CINEMA columbia university press new york C6580.indb iii 10/9/14 9:12 AM columbia university press Publishers Since 1893 new york chichester, west sussex cup.columbia.edu Copyright © 2015 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Yacavone, Daniel. Film worlds : a philosophical aesthetics of cinema / Daniel Yacavone. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. isbn 978-0-231-15768-1 (cloth : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-231-15769-8 (pbk. : alk. paper) — isbn 978-0-231-53835-0 (ebook) 1. Motion pictures—Aesthetics. 2. Motion pictures—Philosophy. I. Title. pn1995.y275 2014 791.4301—dc23 2014016641 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. This book is printed on paper with recycled content. Printed in the United States of America c 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 p 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 cover image: robert schlatter © gallery stock cover design: chang jae lee References to websites (URLs) were accurate at the time of writing. Neither the author nor Columbia University Press is responsible for URLs that may have expired or changed since the manuscript was prepared. C6580.indb iv 10/9/14 9:12 AM Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our disposal as many worlds as there are original artists, worlds more diff erent one from the other than those which revolve in infi nite space. —Marcel Proust You see, once you start down a road to make a fi lm you enter a certain world. And certain things can happen in that world, and certain things can’t. . . . So you begin to know these rules for your world, and you’ve got to be true to those rules. —David Lynch C6580.indb v 10/9/14 9:12 AM C6580.indb vi 10/9/14 9:12 AM contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction xiii part i. films and worlds 1 1. worlds within worlds: Fictions, Narrative, and Aesthetic Enclosure 3 part ii. worlds of symbols 37 2. the framework of worlds: Symbolization, Meaning, and Art 39 3. filmmaking as symbolic transformation 60 4. ways of cinematic world-making 86 5. representation, exemplification, and reflexivity: An Alternative Approach to the Symbolic Dimension of Cinematic Art 114 part iii. worlds of feeling 159 6. forms of feeling: Mapping Aff ect and Emotions in Films 161 C6580.indb vii 10/9/14 9:12 AM viii contents 7. cineaesthetic world-feeling and immersion 190 part iv. worlds of truth 227 8. toward an existential hermeneutics of film worlds 229 Notes 269 Bibliography 287 Index 299 C6580.indb viii 10/9/14 9:12 AM illustrations 2.1 Greenaway’s T he Draughtsman’s Contract 57 2.2 Greenaway’s T he Draughtsman’s Contract 57 3.1 Truff aut’s Day for Night 63 4.1 Bresson’s L ancelot du Lac 91 4.2 Bergman’s P ersona 99 4.3 Bergman’s P ersona 99 4.4 Tati’s Playtime 106 5.1 Godard’s Vivre sa vie 141 5.2 Godard’s Le mépris 141 5.3 Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey 146 5.4 Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey 146 5.5 Tarr’s Werckmeister Harmonies 154 6.1 Cinematic Aff ect and Emotion 170 6.2 Mackenzie’s T he Long Good Friday 185 7.1 Denis’s Trouble Every Day 198 7.2 Welles’s T ouch of Evil 205 8.1 Allen’s M anhattan 252 C6580.indb ix 10/9/14 9:12 AM
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