matthew,
you may also want to read deleuze's cinema books.
since you mentioned the notion of language and thought in cinema.
good luck with your project.
>From: Matthew Dougherty <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Film-Philosophy Salon <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: Recognition and film
>Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 10:51:48 -0700
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>I am currently working on my thesis project which
>entails the production of a short film as well as an
>essay meant to discuss the relation of our notion of
>recognition with film. As of now, my thoughts on
>recognition and what is meant by it are pretty vague,
>but my essential thought is film enables, initiates a
>type of recognition to happen with us through which we
>become aware of some aspect ourselves that is
>otherwise near impossible to articulate. And yet I
>also want to consider recognition on a basic level, as
>something often made reference to by many
>filmmakers(see the end of Chaplin's City Lights, or
>more recently the last scene of Bergman's Saraband).
>In what sense are they expressing or playing with the
>idea of film as a self-reflective device that enables
>sight? A quote of Bergman's he remarked about his
>film Persona comes to mind: "I touched upon wordless
>secrets that only the cinema can discover." What
>would it mean to take his claim seriously, and not
>merely as an expression of how much he enjoys his own
>films. How would we know if we'd spotted those
>secrets - by pointing to the screen every time one of
>them were on? But to build on his claim, and to
>attempt to express how cinema, as a particular
>language unto itself (though perhaps it is even
>misleading to consider film in the status of a
>language) can express and SHOW us things about
>ourselves in a unique way, I would think similar to
>revelation. Can the cinema strip us naked, even if
>only for a moment, of the grammar that composes most
>of our thoughts, so that we might hold ourselves
>shivering without the words that normally keep us
>warm?
>
>This is all carelessly formulated as of now, but I'm
>interested if anyone can think of any texts, primarily
>philosophical that I might use for clarification. As
>of now I'm consulting Cavell, Lacan, Bresson, and
>Eisenstein, but am anxious for further suggestions.
>Thank you.
>
>Matthew
>New School University
>
>
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