Overview
- Engages with the relationship between film and philosophy
- Focuses in detail on Stan Brahkage's "Dog Star Man" (1962)
- Proposes an innovative approach to the interpretation of experimental cinema
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About this book
This book shows how a masterpiece of experimental cinema can be interpreted through hermeneutics of the film world. As an application of Ricœurian methodology to a non-narrative film, the book calls into question the fundamental concept of the film world. Firmly rooted within the context of experimental cinema, Stan Brakhage’s Dog Star Man was not created on the basis of a narrative structure and representation of characters, places and events, but on very different presuppositions. The techniques with which Brakhage worked on celluloid and used frames as canvases, as well as his choice to make the film without dialogue and sound, exhort the interpreter to directly question the philosophical language of moving images.
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About the author
Alberto Baracco conducts research on film, film philosophy and film ecocriticism at the University of Torino, Italy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Philosophy in Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man
Book Subtitle: World, Metaphor, Interpretation
Authors: Alberto Baracco
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12426-7
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-12425-0Published: 15 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-12426-7Published: 01 March 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 144
Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Phenomenology, Film Theory, Hermeneutics