Cinephilia and the Adventure for Existential Health | Recomposing Subjectivity at the Cinema

Adam Szymanski

ISBN 10: 0810149141 / ISBN 13: 9780810149144

Published by Northwestern University Press, 2025

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Cinephilia and the Adventure for Existential Health | Recomposing Subjectivity at the Cinema | Adam Szymanski | Taschenbuch | Superimpositions | Einband - flex.(Paperback) | Englisch | 2025 | Northwestern University Press | EAN 9780810149144 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Cinephilia and the Adventure for Existential Health | Recomposing Subjectivity at the Cinema
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810149141
• ISBN 13: 9780810149144
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 223W x 149H x 13D millimeters 223 millimeters width by 149 millimeters height by 13 millimeters depth
• Weight: 250 grams
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Synopsis

Exploring how art cinema cultivates existential health through the films of Olivier Assayas
 
This book proposes that cinephilia can facilitate existential health, which makes palpable the potential for subjectivity to be recomposed through meaningful encounters with cinema. Adam Szymanskidraws on the ethos of psychoanalyst Félix Guattari and thinks with select films from director Olivier Assayas―including Clouds of Sils Maria and Personal Shopper―to theorize how the cinema can be invested with therapeutic value. Cinephilia and the Adventure for Existential Health engages the history of psychoanalytic film theory, excavates its long-standing concern with the production of spectatorial subjectivity, and challenges pathologizing understandings of cinema spectatorship couched in identification, fetishism, and voyeurism. By embracing the indeterminacy of the cinematic experience and the adventurous disposition of cinephilia, the book allies itself to the pursuit of collective health and challenges the logic of medical power.

About the Author

ADAM SZYMANSKI is the author of Cinemas of Therapeutic Activism: Depression and the Politics of Existence.