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Literature and Film, DispositionedFilm

Literature and Film, Dispositioned: Film [‘I believe’, the Austrian-American filmmaker Josef von Sternberg is supposed to have said, ‘that cinema was here from the beginning of the world.’1 Since common sense counters that cinema was not here from the beginning of the world, what sort of sense should we make of such a statement, or what does Sternberg’s statement understand about the ‘world’, and cinema’s relationship to it, that common sense cannot? Is to say that cinema was here from the beginning of the world to say that cinema is inseparable from the world, and if so, is this because cinema is somehow a name for the way the world gives light to itself? Is cinema for Sternberg the world’s perception and possibility? The ‘world’ would then be nothing but a word for what is figured, or for what figures: the world becomes a word for what is communicable by images. Is this what Sternberg’s sentence gets at? Or is the point instead that cinema is something like the world’s shadow, what the world leaves out when it comes into being, whatever the world is always excluding?] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2014
ISBN
978-1-349-45185-2
Pages
98 –119
DOI
10.1057/9781137295453_4
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[‘I believe’, the Austrian-American filmmaker Josef von Sternberg is supposed to have said, ‘that cinema was here from the beginning of the world.’1 Since common sense counters that cinema was not here from the beginning of the world, what sort of sense should we make of such a statement, or what does Sternberg’s statement understand about the ‘world’, and cinema’s relationship to it, that common sense cannot? Is to say that cinema was here from the beginning of the world to say that cinema is inseparable from the world, and if so, is this because cinema is somehow a name for the way the world gives light to itself? Is cinema for Sternberg the world’s perception and possibility? The ‘world’ would then be nothing but a word for what is figured, or for what figures: the world becomes a word for what is communicable by images. Is this what Sternberg’s sentence gets at? Or is the point instead that cinema is something like the world’s shadow, what the world leaves out when it comes into being, whatever the world is always excluding?]

Published: Oct 8, 2015

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