Lived Moments

Phenomenology, Neorealism, and the New Wave

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de Glen W. Norton

Type

Essays

Sujet

Theory

Mots Clés

modernism, New Wave

Année d'édition

2025 (January 07, 2025)

Editeur

McGill-Queen's University Press

Langue

anglais

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Format

Hardcover • 240 pages
6 x 9 inches (15.5 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-0-2280-2355-5

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Description de l'ouvrage:
A new philosophical understanding of modernist cinema’s ability to express indeterminate and contingent moments of daily life.

From the everyday concerns of Umberto D to the spiritual traces of Ma nuit chez Maud, revelatory moments are intrinsic to the fabric of cinematic modernism. Lived Moments conceptualizes the path from Italian Neorealism to the French New Wave as a trajectory unique in its expressions of the indeterminacy and contingency of daily life. Drawing on film theory and criticism as well as the history of phenomenological thought, Glen Norton offers illustrative readings of cinematic scenes exemplifying this modernist evolution in canonical films by Vittorio De Sica, Roberto Rossellini, Michelangelo Antonioni, Jean-Luc Godard, and Eric Rohmer. Norton describes how these filmmakers structure their characters’ lifeworlds via moments grounded by chance and multiplicity, each having the potential to lift the opaque veil of inwardness. Experienced in their immediacy, these moments offer the viewer glimpses of a character’s potential individuation. As such, they embody the difficult, private, and perhaps even incommunicable choices made in the midst of self-reflection, self-awareness, and self-definition. Lived Moments deepens our understanding of the history of cinematic modernism, throwing new light on the canonical movements of Neorealism and the New Wave while also demonstrating the importance of lived moments for cinema more broadly. The book stands as a model of how film analysis and film philosophy can be symbiotic rather than separate ways of thinking about cinematic experience.

À propos de l'auteur :
Glen W. Norton teaches in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University.

Revue de Presse:
"Through attentive and informative analyses, Norton presents new ways of thinking about canonical films in Italian Neorealism and the French New Wave." Marc Furstenau, Carleton University

"A rare work of erudition and style. Even readers who do not have a feel or taste for philosophy will appreciate Norton’s careful analysis." Brian Price, University of Toronto

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