Metaphysics and the Moving Image: "Paradise Exposed"

Cover
Half Title
Dedication
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Death of God, the Birth of Film, and the New Metaphysics
Chapter One Image Breakthrough: Disclosure and Derailment in Painting, Photography, and Film
	I. Art in the Wake of Metaphysics
	II. The Myth of the Lumière Leaf
Chapter Two The Evolution of the Concept of “World” from Philosophy to Film
	I. The World in the Palm of Philosophy
	II. Film in the World’s Palm, or the World in its Own Image
	III. Metaphysical Figures in Days of Heaven
Chapter Three Paradise Exposed: Psychic Automatism in Film Primer: “While the will is off its watch”
	Primer: “While the will is off its watch”
	I. The Mechanical Garden
	II. Heinrich von Kleist’s Marionette Theater
	II. Heinrich von Kleist’s Marionette Theater
	III. Robert Bresson’s Filmic Models
Chapter Four Nature, Whose Death Shines a Light: Exteriority and Overexposure in The Thin Red Line
	I. Introduction
	II. Dramaturgy of Nature
	III. A Cinematic Sublime
	IV. Metaphysics of the Front
Chapter Five “Mother, I am Dumb …”: The Reevaluation of Friedrich Nietzsche in The Turin Horse
Notes
Bibliography
Index