{"product_id":"film-figures-an-organological-approach-9781501361210","title":"Film Figures: An Organological Approach","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFilm Figures\u003c\/i\u003e develops a figural account of the memory structure of films.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmploying theoretical concepts drawn from a range of sources, including French post-humanist philosophy and German Idealism, the book undertakes an organology of film guided by the work of Bernard Stiegler whose philosophy of \u003ci\u003emnemotechnesis\u003c\/i\u003e provides the framework of analysis. Situating films in the quantum field of spacetime relativity as a field of cosmic views, inquiry into film figures begins with disturbances in the experience of films themselves, posing questions of the relation between the dead past and the living future in film story-telling. By breaking the fa?ade of the continuing present through self-questioning, we open films to their figural dimensions in the counter-movement of drive as negentropic resistance. Following the back-movement of drive switches our perception to the figural register in which characters become figures probing blindly for what the film will have been in another time - a time yet to be lived. By following the anterior possibilities of this other time, we open films to the archival future in which a new future comes forth. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis book provides theoretical and analytical concepts as well as strategies for taking a step into this future, guided by questions of the right path to take given the relativity of views in which the film can be experienced. Films analysed include Murnau's \u003ci\u003eThe Last Laugh\u003c\/i\u003e, Capra's \u003ci\u003eIt's a Wonderful Life\u003c\/i\u003e, Hitchcock's \u003ci\u003eRear Window\u003c\/i\u003e, Welles's \u003ci\u003eThe Lady from Shanghai\u003c\/i\u003e, Fellini's \u003ci\u003eIntervista\u003c\/i\u003e, Antonioni's \u003ci\u003eL'Eclisse\u003c\/i\u003e, Bresson's \u003ci\u003eUne Femme Douce\u003c\/i\u003e, and Zeller's \u003ci\u003eThe Father\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWarwick Mules\u003c\/b\u003e is Adjunct Associate Professor at Southern Cross University, Australia. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eWith Nature: Nature Philosophy as Poetics\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003ethrough Schelling, Heidegger, Benjamin and Nancy\u003c\/i\u003e (2014) and publishes in the philosophy of film and visual technology.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50903658791186,"sku":"9781501361210","price":126.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ae9684c5-9d53-4373-bc81-1e2bcdd0beae.jpg?v=1738501959","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/film-figures-an-organological-approach-9781501361210","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}