Post-War Modernist Cinema and Philosophy Confronting Negativity and Time [Hardcover]

A unique study of four major post-war European films by four key 'auteurs', which argues that these films exemplify film modernism at the peak of its philosophical reflection and aesthetic experimentation.Introduction PART I: THE NEGATIVE IMPRESSION Cinema's Ontological Challenge Reflexive Formal Violence PART II: AN ANXIOUS PAUSE Dangerous Temporalities A New World Conclusion Works Cited Notes Index

'Ford draws on a wide range of research across film, modernist cultural and aesthetic theory and continental philosophical terrains. The work engages both with more recent film-philosophy scholarship and the disciplinary resources of film studies work on the movements and individual filmmakers in question. A successful and important contribution to scholarship on these films, their historical and aesthetic significance and their capacity to 'do' philosophy.' - Patrick Crogan, University of the West of England, UK

HAMISH FORD is Lecturer in Film, Media and Cultural Studies at Newcastle University, Australia. He has published journal articles in The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Senses of Cinema and Real Time, and has contributed to books including New Takes in Film-Philosophy (Palgrave, 2011).