The Cinematic Sublime: Negative Pleasures, Structuring Absences

This interdisciplinary volume explores the idea of the cinematic sublime by bringing together film studies and aesthetics. It examines the sublime in cinema from various perspectives, including early cinema, classical Hollywood, documentary, avant-garde, and art cinema traditions. The book aims to apply the discussion of the sublime in philosophy to cinema and interrogate how cinema engages with this tradition. It offers new insights into how cinema engages with historical and aesthetic discourse and is a valuable resource for post-graduate students and established scholars interested in the interrelations between film and philosophy.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 214 pages
Publication date: 17 February 2023
Publisher: Intellect Books

This interdisciplinary volume is dedicated to exploring the idea of the cinematic sublime by bringing together the disciplines of film studies and aesthetics to examine cinema and cinematic experience.

Explores the idea of 'the sublime in cinema from a variety of perspectives; the essays range in focus from early cinema, through classical Hollywood, documentary, avant-garde and art cinema traditions, and on to contemporary digital cinema. The book aims to apply the discussion of the sublime in philosophy to cinema and to interrogate the ways in which cinema engages with this tradition.

Offers new and exciting insights into how cinema engages with traditional historical and aesthetic discourse. Original and wide-ranging, this clear and coherent volume is a useful resource for both post-graduate students and established scholars interested in the interrelations between film and philosophy. The range of material covered in the individual essays makes this a wide-ranging and very useful introduction to the topic.

A significant new contribution to the literature on Film-Philosophy. What sets this reader apart from the existing books on the subject is the wider scope. It embraces both philosophers and film scholars to consider films from throughout film history in light of theories of the sublime from throughout the history of Philosophy. In doing so it aims to demonstrate the diverse value of sublime approaches (versus a singular definition and philosophical perspective) to a wider range of films than has previously been considered.

An original and stimulating collection of essays contributing new insights into the crossover between historical and aesthetic approaches to contemporary cinema and cinematic experience.

The main readership will be academic markets.

Weight: 384g
Dimension: 170 x 246 x 16 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781789387537
Edition number: New ed