Film Consciousness

<p> The notion of film consciousness is one that has played around various film and philosophical discourses without ever really surfacing as a cogent theory. Representing the first major expression of film consciousness as a tangible concept this critical study revisits notions of memory retentional consciousness narrative expectation and spatio-temporal perception while also analyzing several major films.</p><p> The first half of the book focuses on understanding the elements of the film experience--and its associated consciousness--through the descriptive tools of phenomenology. The second part develops the idea of film consciousness as a unique vision of the world and as a large element in the human understanding of reality. Throughout the work the author combines the ideas of philosophers and film theorists from phenomenology--such as Husserl Merleau-Ponty Bazin and Kracauer--with the postmodernist work of Deleuze and transitional theorists Bergson and Benjamin.</p>