The Arts of Cinema

The Arts of Cinema

by Martin Seel (Author), Martin Seel (Author), Martin Seel (Author), Kizer S. Walker (Author)

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In The Arts of Cinema, Martin Seel explores film's connections to the other arts and the qualities that distinguish it from them. In nine concise and elegantly written chapters, he explores the cinema's singular aesthetic potential and uses specific examples from a diverse range of films-from Antonioni and Hitchcock to The Searchers and The Bourne Supremacy-to demonstrate the many ways this potential can be realized. Seel's analysis provides both a new perspective on film as a comprehensive aesthetic experience and a nuanced understanding of what the medium does to us once we are in the cinema.

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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 178
Edition: Translation
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 15 Jul 2018

ISBN 10: 1501709917
ISBN 13: 9781501709913

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In his tremendously stimulating aesthetics of cinema, Martin Seel writes that films absorb the presence of the spectator more than all other works of art.... One of the merits of his book is that it is informed by a wide spectrum of film history, from the Marx Brothers to Fassbinder.

* Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung *

In his stimulating volume, the philosopher Seel looks for the essence and especially the particularity of the cinema, tracing the roots of cinema in other arts. According to Seel, film takes up elements from all of these arts and realizes its unique potential. Films like Hitchcock's North by Northwest or Antonioni's Zabriskie Point explode the boundaries of space and draw all of the spectator's senses into it.

* Deutschlandfunk [German Public Radio] *

An exciting work of `philosophy meets cinema'-intellectually sophisticated but written in a rich, playful style-this book is both impressive and delightful.

* academicworld.net *

Martin Seel is undoubtedly among the most prominent and interesting aestheticians writing in Germany today, and his philosophical meditation on the cinema gives us a highly original and elegant account of film as a comprehensive aesthetic experience. The Arts of Cinema is beautifully written and will be accessible to a wide range of readers who have an interest in film or aesthetic theory.

-- Peter Gilgen, Cornell University
Author Bio
Martin Seel is Professor of Philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt. He is the author of fourteen books of philosophy and aesthetics, including Aesthetics of Appearing. Kizer S. Walker is Director of Collections for Cornell University Library, Librarian for German Studies, and Managing Editor of the series Signale: Modern German Letters, Cultures, and Thought, copublished by Cornell University Press and Cornell University Library.