Bloomsbury Academic Forms of the Cinematic: Architecture, Science and the Arts

Forms of the Cinematic explores how cinema calls into question its own frame of reference and, in the same breath, how its form becomes the matter of its thought. Building on the axiom (dear to philosophers of cinema from Epstein to Deleuze) that cinema is a medium which thinks in conjunction with its spectators, this book specifies the rudiments of an engaged and effectively practical philosophy of the seventh art. Areas under consideration include architecture, science, writing in a visual field, event-theory, and historiography. Through 11 different chapters, a wide range of leading academics and practitioners consider the meanings and forms of cinematic thinking in their fields.