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.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

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part I|126 pages

Jean-Pierre Meunier

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chapter |6 pages

Introduction

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chapter |83 pages

Part Two: The Film Experience

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chapter |5 pages

General Conclusion

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part II|196 pages

Critical Essays, Historical Assessments, Phenomenological Expansions

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part |46 pages

I: Placing Meunier in the History of Film Theory

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part |27 pages

II: On the Home-movie attitude

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part |50 pages

V: Phenomenological Expansions

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