Cinematic Skepticism
Jeroen Gerrits
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Cinematic Skepticism
Published
2019
Publisher
State University of New York Press
Pages
220
ISBN-13
9781438476636
Description
"Because of its automatic way of recording reality, film has a privileged relation to the problem of skepticism. If early film theorists celebrate cinema for overcoming skeptical doubt about the power of human vision, recent film philosophers argue that our post-photographic, digital cinema is heading towards a general acceptance of skepticism, as though nothing on screen has anything to do with reality any longer. Emerging from the interaction of Stanley Cavell's and Gilles Deleuze's film-philosophies, Cinematic Skepticism challenges both these views. Jeroen Gerrits takes the issue of skepticism beyond concern with knowledge, turning skepticism into an ethical problem that pervades film history and theory. At the same time, he rethinks a Cavello-Deleuzian approach across the digital and global turns in cinema. Combining clear explanations of complex philosophical arguments with in-depth analyses of contemporary films (Grizzly Man, Amélie, Three Monkeys, and The Headless Woman), this book traces how cinema invents ways of dis/connecting to the world"--
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Who is the author of Cinematic Skepticism?
Cinematic Skepticism was written by Jeroen Gerrits.
When was Cinematic Skepticism published?
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