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Abstract
Phenomenology’s Material Presence: Video, Vision and Experience is an exploration of phenomenology and the aesthetics of the moving image. Drawing on the insights of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger and Maurice Merleau-Ponty, this seminal work addresses key questions related to the notion of encounter in cinematic viewing. How does video make visible the act of looking and the act of being seen? How does it intimate the presence of that which cannot be seen? What is the role of video’s material body in facilitating this process? Using a poetic essay style, and three videos by Trinidadian film-maker Robert Yao Ramesar, this book suggests that video performs its own act of phenomenological inquiry. Phenomenology’s Material Presence invites the reader to explore the role of consciousness in our experience of the visual and brings continental philosophy and postcolonial cinema into conversation.
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Front Cover | FC | ||
| Preliminary Pages | a | ||
| Contents | e | ||
| Preface | i | ||
| Acknowledgements | v | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Phenomenology's Aims and Methods | 7 | ||
| Phenomenology’s Material Presence | 10 | ||
| Chapter 1: Acts of Consciousness | 15 | ||
| Performing the Reduction | 17 | ||
| Memory and Dream | 22 | ||
| Movement, Memory and Consciousness | 26 | ||
| The Thetic Role of Consciousness | 36 | ||
| Chapter 2: Being and Consciousness | e | ||
| The “Concretion of Visibility” | 44 | ||
| Possession, Embodiment and Consciousness | 50 | ||
| Ecstasis, Temporality and the Dasein | 54 | ||
| Chapter 3: Being, Consciousness and Time | 61 | ||
| The Enfoldment in Time | 64 | ||
| Being, Consciousness and Time | 71 | ||
| Conclusion | 75 | ||
| Endnotes | 81 | ||
| Bibliography | 85 | ||
| Videography | 91 |