Badiou and Cinema
Alex Ling
Abstract
This book offers an in-depth examination of cinema and its philosophical significance. It employs the philosophy of Alain Badiou to answer the question central to all serious film scholarship – namely, ‘can cinema be thought?’ Treating this question on three levels, the author first asks if we can really think what cinema is, at an ontological level. Second, he investigates whether cinema can actually think for itself; that is, whether or not it is truly ‘artistic’. Finally, the author explores in what ways we can rethink the consequences of the fact that cinema thinks. In answering these ques ... More
Keywords: cinema, Alain Badiou, film scholarship, Hiroshima mon amour, Vertigo, Matrix, Badiou's philosophy, philosophical significance, what cinema is, ontological level
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 | Print ISBN-13: 9780748641130 |
| Published to Edinburgh Scholarship Online: March 2012 | DOI:10.3366/edinburgh/9780748641130.001.0001 |
