Foucault at the movies

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Foucault at the movies

Michel Foucault, Patrice Maniglier, Dork Zabunyan ; translated and edited by Clare O'Farrell

Columbia University Press, c2018

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Foucault va au cinéma

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-230) and index

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Michel Foucault’s work on film, although not extensive, compellingly illustrates the power of bringing his unique vision to bear on the subject and offers valuable insights into other aspects of his thought. Foucault at the Movies brings together all of Foucault’s commentary on film, some of it available for the first time in English, along with important contemporary analysis and further extensions of this work. Patrice Maniglier and Dork Zabunyan situate Foucault’s writings on film in the context of the rest of his work as well as within a broad historical and philosophical framework. They detail how Foucault’s work directly or indirectly inspired both film critics and directors in surprising ways and discuss his ideas in relation to significant movements within film theory and practice. The book includes film reviews and discussions by Foucault as well as his interviews with the prestigious film magazine Cahiers du cinéma and other journals. Also included are his dialogues with the noted French feminist writer Hélène Cixous and film directors Werner Schroeter and René Féret. Throughout, Foucault and those he is in conversation with reflect on the relationship of film to history, the body, power and politics, knowledge, sexuality, aesthetics, and institutions of internment. Foucault at the Movies makes all of Foucault’s writings on film available to an English-speaking audience in one volume and offers detailed, up-to-date commentary, inviting us to go to the movies with Foucault.

Table of Contents

Translator’s Preface, by Clare O’Farrell Introduction: Michel Foucault’s Cut, by Patrice Maniglier and Dork Zabunyan Part 1. Foucault and Film: A Historical and Philosophical Encounter 1. What Film Is Able to Do: Foucault and Cinematic Knowledge, by Dork Zabunyan 2. Versions of the Present: Foucault’s Metaphysics of the Event Illuminated by Cinema, by Patrice Maniglier Part 2. Michel Foucault on Film 3. Film, History, and Popular Memory 4. Marguerite Duras: Memory Without Remembering 5. Paul’s Story: The Story of Jonah 6. The Nondisciplinary Camera Versus Sade 7. The Asylum and the Carnival 8. Crime and Discourse 9. The Return of Pierre Rivière 10. The Dull Regime of Tolerance 11. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 12. Werner Schroeter and Michel Foucault in Conversation Appendix: Foucault at the Movies—a Program of Films Notes Bibliography Index

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