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Posthuman Cinema launches a reimagining of experience, human exceptionalism, bodies, materiality, and the mystical.
Posthuman Cinema's chapters map how Deleuze's transcendental empiricism materializes in the forms of Malick's Tree of Life (2011); how Fay's (2018) theorizing of the Anthropocene as an aesthetic experience animates Tarkovsky's Mirror (1974) and Stalker (1979); how Sharp's (2011) framing of a posthuman corporeality flattens any exceptionality attributed to humans in Wong's In the Mood for Love (2001) and The Grandmaster (2013); how Bennett's (2010) theorization of vibrant matter makes visible the materiality that embeds us in the world within Nair's Monsoon Wedding (2001) and The Namesake (2006); and how Stengers' (2010 and 2011) cosmopolitics illuminates the power of the mystical beyond our minds and bodies in Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams (2010) and Kunuk's Atanarjuat (2001).
Table of Contents
- Human, Nonhuman, Antihuman, Transhuman… Posthuman: Concepts for Thought
- Approaching Cinematic Forms Through Posthumanist Theory
- Ray's Pather Panchali as Human Cinema
- Ray's Pather Panchali as Posthuman Cinema
- Summary of Chapters
1. "Posthuman Cinema: Terrence Malick and a Cinema of Life"
- Transcendental Empiricism and Posthuman Cinema
- The Tree of Life: A Form of Life
- Deleuze's Transcendental Empiricism
- Transcendental Empiricism and Life
- Terrence Malick and a Cinema of Life
2. "Encounters with the Anthropocene: Andrei Tarkovsky and Images of Life"
- The Anthropocene and Posthuman Cinema
- Stalker: Autopoietic Life
- Fay's Eaarth
- Cinematic Stratigraphy and Life
- Mirror, Stalker, and Images of Life
3. "Bodies, Relations, Bodies: Wong Kar Wai and a Cinematic Posthuman Ontology"
- Ontology and Posthuman Cinema
- In the Mood for Love: A Posthuman Ontology
- Sharp's Corporeality
- Corporeality and Cinematic Bodies
- In the Mood for Love, The Grandmaster, and Relations of Life
4. "The Materiality of the World: Mira Nair and a Cinema of Matter"
- Materiality and Posthuman Cinema
- The Namesake: A Life of Matter
- Bennett's Vibrant Matter
- Materiality and Life
- Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake, and a Cinema of Matter
5. "Mystical Forms: Werner Herzog, Zacharias Kunuk, and Powers Beyond the Human"
- The Mystical and Posthuman Cinema
- Cave of Forgotten Dreams: Escaping Our Comprehension
- Stengers' Cosmopolitics
- Challenging Our Knowledges of Life
- Atanarjuat, Cave of Forgotten Dreams, and a Cinematic World Perseveres Beyond Us
Conclusion: "The Life of the Cinema: Tsai Ming-liang's Goodbye, Dragon Inn"
- Posthuman Cinema and Life Yet to Come
- Goodbye, Dragon Inn: The Life of the Cinema
- The Continuous Life of Images
Index
Product details
| Published | Aug 21 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 240 |
| ISBN | 9781501398803 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 50 bw illus |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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