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Doubting Vision - Film and the Revelationist Tradition (Hardcover, New)
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Doubting Vision - Film and the Revelationist Tradition (Hardcover, New)
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The film theories of Jean Epstein, Dziga Vertov, Bela Balazs, and
Siegfried Kracauer have long been studied separately from each
other. In Doubting Vision, film scholar Malcolm Turvey argues that
their work constitutes a distinct, hitherto neglected tradition,
which he calls revelationism, and which differs in important ways
from modernism and realism. For these four theorists and
filmmakers, the cinema is an art of mass enlightenment because it
escapes the limits of human sight and reveals the true nature of
reality. Turvey provides a detailed exegesis of this tradition,
pointing to its sources in Romanticism, the philosophy of Henri
Bergson, modern science, and other intellectual currents. He also
shows how profoundly it has influenced contemporary film theory by
examining the work of psychoanalytical-semiotic theorists of the
1970s, Stanley Cavell, the modern-day followers of Kracauer and
Walter Benjamin, and Gilles Deleuze.
Throughout, Turvey offers a trenchant critique of revelationism
and its descendants. Combining the close analysis of theoretical
texts with the philosophical method of conceptual clarification
pioneered by the later Wittgenstein, he shows how the arguments
theorists and filmmakers have made about human vision and the
cinema's revelatory powers often traffic in conceptual confusion.
Having identified and extricated these confusions, Turvey builds on
the work of Epstein, Vertov, Balazs, and Kracauer as well as
contemporary philosophers of film to clarify some legitimate senses
in which the cinema is a revelatory art using examples from the
films of filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock and Jacques Tati.
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