[Commlist] New Book: The Cinematic Sublime: Negative Pleasures, Structuring Absences

Intellect is pleased to announce that /*The Cinematic Sublime: Negative 
Pleasures, Structuring Absences 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-cinematic-sublime>*/, edited 
by Nathan Carroll, is now available in hardback and ebook.

A significant contribution to the literature on film-philosophy, this 
original and stimulating collection of interdisciplinary essays explores 
the idea of the cinematic sublime by bringing together film studies and 
aesthetics to examine cinema and cinematic experience.

This book views the idea of ‘the sublime’ in cinema from a variety of 
perspectives; the essays range in focus from early cinema, through 
classical Hollywood, documentary, avant-garde and art cinema traditions, 
and on to contemporary digital cinema. Offers new and exciting insights 
into how cinema engages with traditional historical and aesthetic 
discourse. This wide-ranging and coherent volume is a useful resource 
for both post-graduate students and established scholars interested in 
the interrelations between film and philosophy.
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*_Table of Contents
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*Acknowledgments*
*Foreword *– /Joan Hawkins/
*Introduction* – /Nathan Carroll/

*Part I: Sublime Spectatorship *
*1.* Sublime Spectatorship on Tour: The Early British Scenic and the 
Quest for the Perfect View – /Samantha Wilson/
*2.* Stars Up Close: Celebrity, Ephemerality, and the Banal Sublime – 
/Claire Sisco King/

*Part II: Staging Sublimity: “Presenting the Unpresentable” *
*3.* Between Preservation and Disintegration in Decayed Cinema: The 
Uncanny and the Weird of the Sublime Archival Image in Hollis Frampton’s 
(/nostalgia/) (1971) and Bill Morrison’s /Decasia/ (2002) – /Kornelia 
Boczkowska/
*4.* Negative Epiphanies and Sublime Emotion in Steven Spielberg’s /A.I. 
Artificial Intelligence/ – /James Kendrick/

*Part III: Time, Memory, and History: Ruptures and Fragments *
*5.* Claude Lanzmann’s /Shoah/ and the Historical Sublime – /Steve 
Ostovich/*
6.* Jerry Lewis’s Holocaust and the Limits of Invisibility – /Chris Dumas/

*Part IV: The Limits of Control: Sublime Cinemascapes*
*7.* A Short History of the Long Take: Digital Cinema and the “Infinite 
Cut” – /Nathan Carroll/
*8.* Stalking the Sublime: Nature and Affect in Andrei Tarkovsky’s 
/Stalker/ – /Robert Lee Jones/

*Part V: The Limits of Light: The Other(s) *
*9.* Sublime Abject or Abject Sublime: Sublimation and Jouissance in 
Andrezj Żuławski’s /Szamanka/ – /Carolin Kirchner/
*10.* The Fear of Beauty and the Beauty of Fear: The Sublime in Jonathan 
Glazer’s /Under the Skin/ – /Kwasu David Tembo/

*Bibliography
Notes on the Contributors
Index
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https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-cinematic-sublime
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-cinematic-sublime>


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