ABSTRACT
For the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meunier’s insightful thoughts on the film experience available for an English-speaking readership. Introduced and commented by specialists in film studies and philosophy, Meunier’s intricate phenomenological descriptions of the spectator’s engagement with fiction films, documentaries and home movies can reach the wide audience they have deserved ever since their publication in French in 1969.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |17 pages
“Every Theory Needs a Reference to Lived Experience”: An Interview with Jean-Pierre Meunier
part I|126 pages
Jean-Pierre Meunier
part II|196 pages
Critical Essays, Historical Assessments, Phenomenological Expansions
part |46 pages
I: Placing Meunier in the History of Film Theory
part |27 pages
II: On the Home-movie attitude
part |40 pages
III: On Identification
part |31 pages
IV: Referentiality and Mediation
part |50 pages
V: Phenomenological Expansions
