Thinking Reality and Time through Film

Abstract

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction by the Editors

Part 1 Mental Approaches: On The Nature Of Time, Perception and Images

• Susana Viegas, The Integrity Of Gesture In Steve Mcqueen’s Films • Teresa Teixeira, The Image Of Temporality • Claudio Rozzoni, Iconic Consciousness And Perceptual Phantasy. A Husserlian Contribution To Film Image • Przemyslaw Bursztyka, The Phantasmatic Reality. A Phenomenological Study Of The Cinematic Imagination • José Manuel Martins, In Reality: The Ultimate Cinematic Quest • Atėnė Mendelytė, The Filmic Century/ Centuries Of The Mind – Tracing The Beginnings Of The Subjective Cinema • Carlos João Correia, Cinematographic Narrative And Personal Identity • Leighton Grist, Bazin, Style, And Digitization: Ontology, Epistemology, And The New Myth Of Total Cinema

Part 2 Ontological Realism And Accesssing Truth Through Film

• Joseph Früchtl, Aesthetic-Philosophical-Realism: How Intuition Matters For Ontology And Film • Hyun Kang Kim, The Blue Flower In The Land Of Technology: Film, Time, And Politics In Walter Benjamin • Tatjana Sheplyakova, The Revolutionary Gaze for the Real: Dziga Vertov’s “Kino-Eye” • André Ujica/ Peter Weibel, The Ontology Of Film Images • Christine Reeh, On The Rise Of Solaristic Philosophy • Colin McGinn, Multimodal Theory Of Film Experience

Part 3 Unmasking Violence - Trauma and Film

• Mirjam Schaub, Violence, Philosophy And Film • Christoph Korn/ Cristina Beckert/ Maria João Madeira, Mask • Sousa Dias, Ralenty As Concept Of Film • Filomena Molder, Green Leaves, Green Sorrows • Vitor Moura, Unexpected Findings and Documentaries