Phenomenology's Material Presence

Phenomenology's Material PresenceThis book draws on work in phenomenology, embodiment and cinema and extends the field by examining metaphysical presence in postcolonial cinema. Through a meditation on three experimental videos by Trinidadian filmmaker Robert Yao Ramesar, this book makes the case that video performs an act of phenomenological inquiry.

What is it that draws us to characters like Breaking Bad's Walter White

Disguising herself as a man named Hector d’Estrange

resulting from answering the questions above in the context of consciousness studies

leading practitioners and academics will explore key aspects of practice – problemitising

criticised and studied in many films

Jean Renoir

he went from barely able to carry a tune to someone whom other karaoke patrons requested to sing

culture and politics - have sparked political debates worldwide for many years

identity and the body in art and critical theory in the late twentieth century

The still-young field of software engineering has devoted most of its attention to reducing that complex-

Throughout

The most original aspects of the book are the close readings of the films discussed and how these readings cohere across a single thesis