Philosophy in Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man
World, Metaphor, Interpretation
Authors: Baracco, Alberto
Free Preview- Engages with the relationship between film and philosophy
- Focuses in detail on Stan Brahkage's "Dog Star Man" (1962)
- Proposes an innovative approach to the interpretation of experimental cinema
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This book shows how a masterpiece of experimental cinema can be interpreted through hermeneutics of the film world. As an application of Ricœurian methodology to a non-narrative film, the book calls into question the fundamental concept of the film world. Firmly rooted within the context of experimental cinema, Stan Brakhage’s Dog Star Man was not created on the basis of a narrative structure and representation of characters, places and events, but on very different presuppositions. The techniques with which Brakhage worked on celluloid and used frames as canvases, as well as his choice to make the film without dialogue and sound, exhort the interpreter to directly question the philosophical language of moving images.
- About the authors
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Alberto Baracco conducts research on film, film philosophy and film ecocriticism at the University of Torino, Italy.
- Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-18
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DSM and Philosophy
Pages 19-34
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Understanding DSM’s Film World
Pages 35-74
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Explaining DSM’s Film World
Pages 75-111
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Critical Understanding of DSM’s Film World
Pages 113-122
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Philosophy in Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man
- Book Subtitle
- World, Metaphor, Interpretation
- Authors
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- Alberto Baracco
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Palgrave Pivot
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-12426-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-12426-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-12425-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XVIII, 144
- Number of Illustrations
- 14 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
- Topics
