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

> 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/