Raymond Bellour

Hilary Radner is Emeritus Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Otago. She is the author of three monographs that form a trilogy addressing the formation of feminine identity at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century: Shopping Around: Consumer Culture and the Pursuit of Pleasure (Routledge, 1995), Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films, Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture (Routledge, 2011), and The New Woman’s Film: Femme-centric Movies for Smart Chicks (Routledge, 2017). Her publications also include six co-edited volumes, notably A Companion to Contemporary French Cinema (2015). Alistair Fox is Emeritus Professor at the University of Otago. He has published widely on topics in both literature and cinema, and most recently is the author of Jane Campion: Authorship and Personal Cinema (2011), Speaking Pictures: Neuropsychoanalysis and Authorship in Film and Literature (2016), and Coming of Age Cinema in New Zealand (EUP, 2017).

• AcknowledgmentsPrefaceIntroduction: Cinema and Its Discontents: The Place of Raymond Bellour in Film Theory from the Twentieth to the Twenty-first Century, by Hilary RadnerPART ONE: Raymond Bellour: Cinema and the Moving Image, by Hilary RadnerChapter One. Film Analysis: Image and MovementChapter Two. The Digital Challenge: From the Theater to the GalleryChapter Three. Cinema and the Body: The Ghost in the TheaterChapter Four. An Elegy for Cinema　PART TWO: Bellour by Bellour: Selections from an Interview with Raymond Bellour. Conducted by Gabriel Bortzmeyer and Alice LeRoy in December 2015. Translated and Edited by Alistair FoxChapter Five. Formative InfluencesChapter Six. Film Analysis and the SymbolicChapter Seven. Thierry Kuntzel and the Rise of Video ArtChapter Eight. Arrested Images and "the Between-Images"Chapter Nine. Spectators, Dispositifs, and the Cinematic Body Chapter Ten. Hypnosis, Emotions, and AnimalityPART THREE: Biography and Publications of Raymond Bellour, by Alistair FoxRaymond Bellour: A Biographical SketchA Select Annotated Bibliography of the Publications of Raymond BellourSelect List of Sources CitedIndex

Cinema and the Moving Image is a timely appreciation of Raymond Bellour, seminal critic and writer who has defined the art of film theory and analysis. Radner's meticulous study of the evolution of Bellour's style and manner that includes his embrace of classical cinema, video art and mixed media gives way to a hitherto untranslated interview in which Bellour discusses a gamut of his writings. Rounded out by Alistair Fox's biography and bibliography, the book is an invaluable contribution to film studies and a point of reference for work in literature and visual media.