Cinematically Rendering Confucius

Chinese Film Philosophy and the Efficacious Screen-Play
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-79065-2
Verlag: Springer Nature Switzerland

Buch, Englisch, 264 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 476 g

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fleming, David H.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Sonstige Religionen Östliche Religionen Konfuzianismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Nicht-Westliche Philosophie Indische & Asiatische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Propagandizing China’s Master ‘Philosopher’:  (1940) and (2010).- Chapter 2: A Sage on the Global Stage: Or, the Chinese Kant Philosophise?.- Chapter 3: On Confucian Mediality and Ren-dering -thought.- Chapter 4: “ Confucius”: Fei’s Artful Aspirational Screen-Play.- Chapter 5: The “Second Coming” of Confucius: Or, Hu’s Hu in Chapter 6: End Game: Confucius a Go Go.- Afterword: On Xi Jinping and the Synthetic Spectres of Marx and Confucius.

Über Autor(innen)

David H. Fleming is a Senior Lecturer in Film & Media at the University of Stirling. He is series editor of the Screens, Thinking, Worlds book series and author of The Squid Cinema From Hell: Kinoteuthis Infernalis and the Emergence of Chthulumedia (with William Brown 2020), Chinese Urban Shi-nema: Cinematicity, Society and Millennial China (with Simon Harrison, 2020), and Unbecoming Cinema: Unsettling Encounters with Ethical Event Films (2017). Forthcoming he has monographs entitled Infinite Ontologies of the Chthulustream (with William Brown) and Global Philosophers on Film: Conceptualising Aesthetics. David also increasingly researches using the video-essay form and has several practical film-philosophy works forthcoming, including his gonzo Hiber-nation: The Green Ray from Under the Skin with [In]Transition.