Tyson Stewart

Cinema Derrida

The Law of Inspection in the Age of Global Spectral Media

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Produktbeschreibung

Cinema Derrida charts Jacques Derrida's collaborations and appearances in film, video, and television beginning with 1983's Ghost Dance (dir. Ken McMullen, West Germany/UK) and ending with 2002's biographical documentary Derrida (dir. Dick and Ziering, USA). In the last half of his working life, Derrida embraced popular art forms and media in more ways than one: not only did he start making more media appearances after years of refusing to have his photo taken in the 1960s and 1970s, but his philosophy also started to draw more explicitly from visual culture and artistic endeavours. While this book offers explanations of this transition, it contends the image of "Jacques Derrida" that emerges from film and TV appearances remains spectral, constantly deferring a complete grasp of him.

Tyson Stewart draws out the main tenets of spectrality from Derrida's seminal texts Of Grammatology and Specters of Marx and other writings, like Echographies of Television, in order to fill a gap in studies of Derrida and film. Throughout the book, he explains how various techniques and spectral effects such as slow motion, stillness, repetition, mise-en-abîme, direct address, and focus on body parts/bodily presence bring about a structure of spectrality wherein the past other returns to make impressions and ethical demands on the viewer. Drawing on communication theory and film and media studies, Cinema Derrida makes a major intervention in classical communication thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Peter Lang
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 317947
• Seitenzahl: 170
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9781433179471
• ISBN-10: 1433179474
• Artikelnr.: 59970886

Autorenporträt

Tyson Stewart (Ph.D., Laurentian University), Assistant Professor of Indigenous Studies at Nipissing University, is an Anishinaabe film and media scholar and writer. His writing can be found in Senses of Cinema, Empedocles: European Journal for the Philosophy of Communication, and in the edited collection The Legacies of Jean-Luc Godard.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements - Introduction - The Blinding Promises of Spectrality: Derrida's Communication Theory 1st Séance: Photography's Suspense Effect - 2nd Séance: The Dead Sound Off: Mourning Others in Ghost Dance - 3rd Séance: Before the Law of Spectrality: Derrida on the Prague Imprisonment - 4th Séance: Cinécircumcision: Phantom Parts in the Archive - Conclusion: Spectral Glut - Index.

Rezensionen

"Through the lens of Derrida's concept of spectrality-alongside hauntology, teletechnology, and the trace-Cinema Derrida fills a crucial gap in contemporary scholarship by focusing on Derrida's collaborations with filmmakers and other visual artists. Stewart's close examination of the formal elements of these films and other media texts in relation to images of bodily presence demonstrates how spectrality serves as a means for the past to place the viewer in a position of continuous and endless mourning, with all of the ethical implications vis-à-vis the other that such mourning entails. Part media biography, part theoretical intervention, this book offers an original and generative entry point into thinking about images through Derrida and Derrida through images."-Jaimie Baron, University of Alberta