Phenomenology's Material Presence Brydie-Leigh Bartleet

Phenomenology's Material Presence Brydie-Leigh BartleetThis book draws on work in phenomenology, embodiment and cinema and extends the field by examining metaphysical presence in postcolonial cinema. 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.

through essays and film scene reviews devoted to an exploration of its topography as depicted by Jean Epstein

Published in Berlin

expansive text

using both to inscribe the foundation myths of the Stalin era in the national consciousness

The book contains reviews

this book pushes past the narrative that links the origins of graffiti to criminal gangs and instead offers a detailed portrait of graffiti as a rich urban culture with its own rules and practices

A wide range of genres are presented

This volume is organized as a glossary and is combined with an informative introduction that is essential to scholars and fans of the German New Wave

they often freeze up because they have to put their thoughts in writing

Best known to international audiences for its carnivalesque irreverence and recent gangster blockbusters

Since the late 1990s

all of which use Russian theorist Mikhail Bakhtin's concept of carnival