American Medium – A New Film Philosophy
A New Film Philosophy
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present;
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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher MK – Stanford University Press
- Date of Publication 18 November 2025
- ISBN 9781503644984
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 229x152x13 mm
- Weight 354 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 10 halftones 700
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In this masterful new work, film critic and philosopher Eyal Peretz forges a new connection between the concept of ""America"" and the medium of film. Through exemplary close readings of six fundamental American films—John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather, Steven Spielberg's West Side Story, and Sofia Coppola's Lost in Translation and Marie Antoinette—Peretz demonstrates the way the connection between ""America"" and film is enabled through the development of a philosophical concept of medium that allows both ""America"" and film to be thought anew.
As Peretz shows, ""America"" can be understood as a medium providing a new framework for understanding human life in modernity—an era that's seen the demise of theology (or the ""death of god,"" as Nietzsche declared). Through incisive readings of the films mentioned above, Peretz shows each to function in its own singular fashion as an allegory of the way that ""America""—that is, the demand to ground human life non-theologically—becomes the notion around which the medium of Hollywood film circulates.
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