Dialogic Materialism Bakhtin, Embodiment and Moving Image Art.
Title:
Dialogic Materialism Bakhtin, Embodiment and Moving Image Art.
Author:
Jordan-Haladyn, Miriam.
ISBN:
9781453912270
9781322116624
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
New York : Peter Lang Publishing Inc., 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (160 p.)
Series:
American University studies. series v, Philosophy ; Vol. 215
American university studies. Series V, Philosophy ; v. 215.
General Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
Contents:
Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Bakhtin and Moving Image Art; Bakhtin, Art and the Plastic Body; The Plastic Body as a Living Material Screen; Bakhtin and Moving Image Art; PART I; Chapter 1: Dialogism and Its Material Context; Artistic Speech and Its Embodied Forms; The Body Takes on Flesh; Inner and Outer Dialogue; Chapter 2: Dialogic Materialism: Artist -- Artwork -- Observer; Dialogic Bridge between World and Experiential Self; The Sensible Materiality of Inner and Outer Speech; Dialectical or Dialogical Materialism?; PART II
Chapter 3: Given and Created: Stan Douglas Subject To A Different ResponseThe Aesthetic Object and the Givens of Speech; The mise-en-scène of Difference; Material Performance of Plastic Speech; Chapter 4: Chronotopic Bodies and the We of Aesthetic Discourse: Jamelie Hassan's Films and Videos; Drawing the Lines of Our Chronotopic Bodies; The Semantics of Material Discourse; Speech and the Material World; The Plastic Bodies of Aesthetic Culture; Chapter 5: Polyphonic Screens: Chris Marker and Embodied Memory; The Body and the Amorphous Construction of Memory; The Observer as a Polyphonic Screen
A Multitude of BodiesForm as a Field of Living Possibility; Conclusion: Dialogic Materialism: Aesthetic Language and Its Multi-medial Forms; Notes; Bibliography; Filmography
Abstract:
Dialogic Materialism: Bakhtin, Embodiment and Moving Image Art argues for the relevance of Mikhail Bakhtin''s theories of dialogism as a means of examining the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary moving image art forms. The volume comprises six chapters divided into two sections. The first section, Part I, illustrates the key concepts in Bakhtin''s multifaceted dialogism and develops these ideas in relation to moving image art. The main focus of this first part is the proposal of what the author terms dialogic materialism, which builds upon the Marxism inherent in Bakhtin, examining the m.
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