Publisher's Synopsis
Jean-Francois Lyotard was the most significant aesthetician of the poststructuralist generation, but this dimension of his thought is only recently beginning to receive the attention it deserves in the English-speaking world. He devoted a number of essays to film, and was also practically engaged in making several experimental short films. Lyotard's reflections on film offer a perspective which seeks to do justice to it as an art by focusing on its aesthetic, material qualities. This collection presents all of Lyotard's major essays on film, an introductory essay by the leading French scholar on Lyotard's film-philosophy, an overview of Lyotard's practical film projects written by his collaborators, and a selection of critical essays by philosophers and film theorists.
