Cinema without Reflection: Jacques Derrida’s Echopoiesis and Narcissim Adrift (Forerunners: Ideas First) - Softcover

Lippit, Akira Mizuta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1517900042 ISBN 13: 9781517900045

Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2016

Synopsis

Cinema without Reflection traces an implicit film theory in Jacques Derrida’s oeuvre, especially in his frequent invocation of the myth of Echo and Narcissus. Derrida’s reflections on the economies of image and sound that reverberate in this story, along with the spectral dialectics of love, mirrors, and poiesis, serve as the basis for a theory of cinema that Derrida perhaps secretly imagined.

Following Derrida’s interventions on Echo and Narcissus across his thought on the visual arts, Akira Mizuta Lippit seeks to return to a theory of cinema adrift in Derrida’s philosophy.

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About the Author

Akira Mizuta Lippit teaches film and literature at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Ex-Cinema: From a Theory of Experimental Film and Video (2012), Atomic Light (Shadow Optics) (Minnesota, 2005), and Electric Animal: Toward a Rhetoric of Wildlife (Minnesota, 2000).

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1517900042
• ISBN 13: 9781517900045
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 82