This groundbreaking inaugural volume for the Thinking Cinema series
focuses on the extent to which contemporary cinema contributes to
political and philosophical thinking about the future of Europe's
core Enlightenment values. In light of the challenges of
globalization, multi-cultural communities and post-nation state
democracy, the book interrogates the borders of ethics and politics
and roots itself in debates about post-secular, post-Enlightenment
philosophy. By defining a cinema that knows that it is no longer a
competitor to Hollywood (i.e. the classic self-other construction),
Elsaesser also thinks past the kind of self-exoticism or
auto-ethnography that is the perpetual temptation of such a
co-produced, multi-platform 'national cinema as world cinema'.
Discussing key filmmakers and philosophers, like: Claire Denis and
Jean-Luc Nancy; Aki Kaurismaki, abjection and Julia Kristeva;
Michael Haneke, the paradoxes of Christianity and Slavoj Zizek;
Fatih Akin, Alain Badiou and Jacques Ranciere, Elsaesser is able to
approach European cinema and assesses its key questions within a
global context.His combination of political and philosophical
thinking will surely ground the debate in film philosophy for years
to come.
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