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Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez (Record no. 26928)

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International Standard Book Number 9780615719467
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System control number (OCoLC)1176455066
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Original cataloging agency MdBmJHUP
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Classification number PN1995
Item number .M378 2012
082 0# - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 791.43
Edition number 23
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Martin, Adrian,
Dates associated with a name 1959-
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Title Last Day Every Day: Figural Thinking from Auerbach and Kracauer to Agamben and Brenez
Statement of responsibility, etc. Adrian Martin.
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Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Project Muse,
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Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Project MUSE,
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General note Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
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Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 35-38).
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Terms governing access Open Access
Standardized terminology for access restriction Unrestricted online access
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Summary, etc. Where is film analysis at today? What is cinema theory up to, behind our backs? The field, as professionally defined (at least in the Anglo-American academic world), is presently divided between contextual historians who turn to broad formations of modernity, and stylistic connoisseurs who call for a return to old-fashioned things like authorial vision, tone, and mise en scene. But there are other, vital, inventive currents happening -- in criticism, on the Internet, in small magazines, and renegade conferences everywhere -- which we are not hearing much about in any official way. Last Day Every Day shines a light on one of these exciting new avenues. Is there a way to bring together, in a refreshed manner, textual logic, hermeneutic interpretation, theoretical speculation, and socio-political history? A way to break the deadlock between classical approaches that sought organic coherence in film works, and poststructuralist approaches that exposed the heterogeneity of all texts and scattered the pieces to the four winds? A way to attend to the minute materiality of cinema, while grasping and contesting the histories imbricated in every image and sound? In "A Philosophical Interpretation of Freud," Paul Ricoeur (drawing upon Hegel) remarks: "The appropriation of a meaning constituted prior to me presupposes the movement of a subject drawn ahead of itself by a succession of 'figures,' each of which finds its meaning in the ones which follow it." The notion of the figural has recently become popular in European film theory and analysis, especially due to the work of Nicole Brenez -- in which the figure stands for "the force . . . of everything that remains to be constituted" in a character, object, social relation or idea. Her use of the term refers back to magisterial work of German literary philologist Erich Auerbach (Mimesis), who decoded the religious interpretive system wherein all persons and events are grasped as significant only insofar as they prefigure their fulfilment on the 'last day' of divine judgment. Auerbach's 1920s work on figuration in Dante was an important influence on his friend Walter Benjamin; and it was this 'theological' aspect of Benjamin's thought that caught Kracauer's attention, leading to the problematic of the redemption of worldly things. Last Day Every Day traces the notion of figural thinking from Weimar then to Paris (and beyond) today, taking in contemporary writings by William Routt and Giorgio Agamben, as well as two filmmakers also touched by such thinking and its cultural ambience: Josef von Sternberg (The Blue Angel) and Douglas Sirk (The Tarnished Angels). Figural analysis has a resonance for its practitioners today that goes far beyond its theological roots and undertones. It has become a way to trace and write cultural history, sensitive to the smallest but most powerful vibrations, exchanges, and metamorphoses within texts, whether filmic, literary, pictorial, aural, or theatrical. Modern cinema, in particular, often reverberates with the apocalyptic thunder of the last day (think Lars von Trier's Melancholia or Abel Ferrara's 4:44 Last Day on Earth) -- while also opening us to the miracles and mysteries, the perplexities and potentialities, of every day.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Motion pictures
General subdivision Philosophy.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Film criticism.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Project Muse,
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Relationship information Print version:
International Standard Book Number 9780615719467
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Project Muse.
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830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Public note Full text available:
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/book/76429/">https://muse.jhu.edu/book/76429/</a>
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Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Date last seen Uniform Resource Identifier Price effective from Koha item type
          Digital Library Digital Library Online Access 27.01.2021   PN1995 .M378 2012 27.01.2021 https://muse.jhu.edu/book/76429/ 27.01.2021 eBook

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