Philosophy in Stan Brakhage's Dog Star Man

World, Metaphor, Interpretation

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by Alberto Baracco

Type

Essays

Subject

One Film > Dog Star Man

Keywords

Stan Brakhage

Publishing date

2019

Publisher

Palgrave MacMillan

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 162 pages
6 x 8 ½ inches (15 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-3-030-12425-0

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Book Presentation:
This book shows how a masterpiece of experimental cinema can be interpreted through hermeneutics of the film world. As an application of Ricœurian methodology to a non-narrative film, the book calls into question the fundamental concept of the film world. Firmly rooted within the context of experimental cinema, Stan Brakhage’s Dog Star Man was not created on the basis of a narrative structure and representation of characters, places and events, but on very different presuppositions. The techniques with which Brakhage worked on celluloid and used frames as canvases, as well as his choice to make the film without dialogue and sound, exhort the interpreter to directly question the philosophical language of moving images.

About the Author:
Alberto Baracco conducts research on film, film philosophy and film ecocriticism at the University of Torino, Italy.

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