Not quite sure of exactly what you mean by recognition but a concept of
recogbition has become pretty central to the theory of depiction in
general. May or may not be useful, but looking at Dominick Lopes
Understand Pictures might be worthwhile. The other important book is
Flint Schier's Deeper into Pictures, but I'd start with the Lopes.
Neither deals with film specifically but both would be relevant to film.
j
ali kashani wrote:
>matthew,
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>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.
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>>From: Matthew Dougherty <[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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