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[ecrea] New title Phenomenology’s Material Presence : Video, Vision and Experience

Thu May 27 16:01:14 GMT 2010



Phenomenology’s Material Presence:
Video, Vision and Experience

By Gabrielle Hezekiah

ISBN 9781841503103
Paperback
Price £19.95/$35

Available now

ABOUT THE BOOK
Phenomenology’s Material Presence draws on recent work in phenomenology, embodiment, and cinema and extends the field by examining metaphysical presence in postcolonial cinema. Where other scholarship has assimilated insight from individual phenomenological thinkers, Phenomenology’s Material Presence utilizes the methods of these thinkers – Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty – to produce a richly textured and poetic essay that brings them into conversation. Through a meditation on three experimental videos by Trinidadian filmmaker Robert Yao Ramesar, this book makes the case that video performs an act of phenomenological inquiry. Phenomenology’s Material Presence extends our theorizing in both film studies and philosophy.


Beautiful and daring, this book came as a breathtaking surprise. Rather than use art to illustrate philosophical concepts, Gabrielle Hezekiah shows that art (in particular, the innovative and beautiful video work of Robert Yao Ramesar) can carry out philosophy itself. Avoiding the more obvious postcolonial approach, she instead places Ramesar's work and audience at the center of a phenomenological inquiry. With this innovative approach she is able to broach delicate questions of being, spirituality, and transcendence that most scholars dare not touch.
– Dr. Laura U. Marks, Simon Fraser University
 

To read more about the book launch event, go to: 
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_features?id=161643064


For more information or to request a review copy, please contact:
May Yao
Associate Publisher
(may /at/ intellectbooks.com)

Order the book online now!

From North America:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/presssite/metadata.epl?mode=synopsis&bookkey=8928333

Rest of world: http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4671/


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