Death and the Aesthetic Sublime
The Enigma of Time in La Jetée
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 2 April 2026
- ISBN 9781666933505
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages104 pages
- Size 232x158x14 mm
- Weight 300 g
- Language English 692
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Short description:
Employing the modern aesthetics of Burke and Kant, as well as Lyotard's postmodern interpretation, this book delineates the elements of sublime experience through exploring the enigmatic cinematic design of Chris Marker's film La Jet-e.
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Employing the modern aesthetics of Burke and Kant, as well as Lyotard's postmodern interpretation, this book delineates the elements of sublime experience through exploring the enigmatic cinematic design of Chris Marker's film La Jet-e.
There is a striking similarity between remembrance and the sublime in psychological structures and processes. When we remember, we sort out the images of the past in a way to evoke the idea of the irreversible time, and when we experience the sublime, we reflect on the distance from the threat of life in a way to remind us of our vulnerability to death. To scrutinize the sublime as an aesthetic concept, Jung Kwon draws on literature from modern and postmodern philosophy, film studies, philosophy of mind and cognitive science, and Zhuangzi.
Through La Jet-e's experimental cinematic design, which consists of a masterful arrangement of still frames, the empathic and imaginative audience cannot help but ponder on what it is to remember. Through deliberately eliminating the illusion of movement, the film presents the profound space of timeless moments, ubiquitous and yet ungraspable, the unpresentable and yet viscerally felt. Jung Kwon argues that Marker's film is a contemplative practice of memory and time, one that takes place simultaneously in the protagonist and the viewer . Memory-in its spiraling loop that defines who we are as experiencing and suffering beings- connects the frozen moments and creates the sense of time passing that inevitably halts at the inescapable barrier of time called death.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
Preface
Introduction
Chapter One: The Enigma of La Jet-e
Chapter Two: Modern Sublime
Chapter Three: Postmodern Sublime
Chapter Four: Imagination and Film Spectatorship
Chapter Five: Contemplation
Epilogue
Bibliography
Index
