Cinema

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For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of thephilosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject towhich the film gives expressive form? This is the question thatlies at the heart of Badiou's account of cinema. He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to theOther and renders human presence visible, thus testifying to theuniversal value of human existence and human freedom. Through theexperience of viewing, the movement of thought that constitutes thefilm is passed on to the viewer, who thereby encounters an aspectof the world and its exaltation and vitality as well as itsdifficulty and complexity. Cinema is an impure art cannibalizingits times, the other arts, and people - a major art preciselybecause it is the locus of the indiscernibility between art andnon-art. It is this, argues Badiou, that makes cinema the socialand political art par excellence, the best indicator of ourcivilization, in the way that Greek tragedy, the coming-of-agenovel and the operetta were in their respective eras.

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Alain Badiou

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"Fascinating ... every word of Badiou's writing radiates with apronounced sense of exuberance for cinema, and presents theconvincing case that it is the liveliest of the seven arts." Film International "Provides brilliant, in-depth analyses on the techniques, styles,and themes of several films." Publishers Weekly "The chance to truly and fully understand the nature of cinemathrough the eyes of someone who is clearly one of its mostpassionate advocates." Morning Star "Badiou's unfashionable militancy is sure to continue togenerate a degree of mock not-this-again head-scratching from theguardians of sober academic scholarship in the humanities, as wellas from whoever might be assigned to review Badiou in say, TheNew York Review of Books." Los Angeles Review of Books "While a thorough reading of this book is an intellectualinvestment, I would highly recommend it, particularly to thoseinterested in the pursuit of cultural renewal by artisticmeans." Englewood Review of Books "There is an aphoristic concision to Badiou's thinking that iscapable of producing moments of true enlightenment." Review 31 "These rich and diverse pieces are all ostensibly concerned withcinema, but are ultimately far more profound than often theiroccasion would demand. Providing an important exploration ofpolitics, esthetics, the visible, and cinema's relation to thinkingand procedures of decision, this volume gives the reader of Badioua sense of this major thinker's intellectual development. Spitzer'stranslation of this volume is a careful and meticulous rendering ofBadiou's thought." Claire Colebrook, Penn State University "Since the 1950s Badiou has written in excess of thirty essays oncinema. It is clear that film has been a constant companion in hisarticulation of art as a form of truth-making event, the creationof unworldly truths. This collection brings these writings togetherin English for the first time, allowing us to see just howimportant film is for Badiou's philosophy of theevent." John Mullarkey, Kingston University, London "These rich and diverse pieces are all ostensibly concerned withcinema, but are ultimately far more profound than often theiroccasion would demand. Providing an important exploration ofpolitics, esthetics, the visible, and cinema's relation to thinkingand procedures of decision, this volume gives the reader of Badioua sense of this major thinker's intellectual development. Spitzer'stranslation of this volume is a careful and meticulous rendering ofBadiou's thought." Claire Colebrook, Penn State University "Since the 1950s Badiou has written in excess of thirty essays oncinema. It is clear that film has been a constant companion in hisarticulation of art as a form of truth-making event, the creationof unworldly truths. This collection brings these writings togetherin English for the first time, allowing us to see just howimportant film is for Badiou's philosophy of theevent." John Mullarkey, Kingston University, London
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