World, Time, Film

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Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

Av Ian Aitken, Hong Kong Baptist University) Aitken, Ian (Professor of Film Studies

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World, Time, Film addresses the issue of how film represents reality through a focus on ‘philosophical realist’ theory, adopting an ‘externalist’ position in relation to cognition, arguing that what is environmentally external shapes what is internally cognitive.The book begins by exploring relation between subject and world in relation to the concept of Umwelt, and then by covering revisions of that concept. French naturalist and realist traditions of art and film are explored in relation to this. The book then applies ideas drawn from extended mind theory to an understanding of the relation between minded subject and world, and to issues of time and temporal experience.Each theory chapter is followed by a linked chapter applying the theory to film, making this one of the first books to apply concepts and theories drawn from philosophical realism and externalism to film in a systematic manner.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-06-30
Mått156 x 234 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor296
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781399525626

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Ian Aitken was a chair professor, and is now an Emeritus Professor, affiliated to Hong Kong Baptist University. His areas of expertise lie in British documentary film studies, the British official film in South-East Asia, and theories of cinematic realism. His most recent book publications include Cinematic Realism (2020), The Major Realist Film Theorists (ed.), The British Official Film in South-East Asia (2016), and The Colonial Documentary Film in South and South-East Asia (2016).

Introduction1. Umwelt and Uexküll2. Umwelt and Harré3. Umwelt, La Bête humaine, and La Règle du jeu 4. Beyond Umwelt: Metaphysical Realism5. Metaphysical Realism, Film History: Theory and Practice, and Documentary Film6. Externalism, and the Extended Mind7. Philosophical Realism, and Encounters at the End of the World8. Temporality: the Arrow of time, the Flux, and the Specious Present9. The Specious Present, the Flow of Time, Music, and Chronicle of Anna Magdelena BachConclusionsBibliographyIndex