Journal of Shanghai University (Social Science Edition) ›› 2019, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (4): 52-60.

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Discretization and Superimposition: Derrida's Rhetoric on Cinema

  

  • Online:2019-07-15 Published:2019-07-15

Abstract:  Though Derrida is not a typical film theorist, his thoughts on film experience echo his concepts in philosophy, literature and painting, which brings certain space to conceptualize the former: the superimpositions between belief and nonbelief, between the ghost of the past and the image of the present, between seeing and seeing seeing itself, and between the image and the voice in the cinema. In each layer of superimpositions, there remains a special kind of discretization, which leads different paths to overcoming subjectivity. Derrida's film theory embodies his style of thinking at this point, that is, constructing in a deconstructive way to maintain the fresh activity of film thinking itself.

Key words:
Derrida,
belief without believing, the return of ghost, see seeing itself, echography