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Abbas Kiarostami and film-philosophy

Title
Abbas Kiarostami and film-philosophy / Mathew Abbott.
Author
Abbott, Mathew.
Publication
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2017.

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167 pages; 24 cm
Summary
"This book presents a powerful new film-philosophy through the cinema of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Mathew Abbott argues that Kiarostami's films carry out cinematic thinking: they do not just illustrate pre-existing philosophical ideas, but do real philosophical work. Crossing the divide between analytic and continental philosophy, he draws on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, John McDowell, Alice Crary, Noel Carroll, Giorgio Agamben, and Martin Heidegger, bringing out the thinking at work in Kiarostami's most recent films: Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, ABC Africa, Ten, Five, Shirin, Certified Copy, and Like Someone in Love."--P. [4] of cover.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-161) and index.
Contents
The wind will carry us : cinematic scepticism -- ABC Africa : apparition and appearance -- Ten : everything there is to know -- Five : artifice and the ordinary -- Shirin : absorption and spectatorship -- Certified copy : the comedy of remarriage in an age of digital reproducibility -- Like someone in love : the suspension of belief.
Call Number
MWES (Kiarostami) 17-311
ISBN
  • 9780748699902 (hbk.)
  • 0748699902 (hbk.)
OCLC
968794585
Author
Abbott, Mathew.
Title
Abbas Kiarostami and film-philosophy / Mathew Abbott.
Publisher
Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2017.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 152-161) and index.
Research Call Number
MWES (Kiarostami) 17-311
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