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Chantal Akerman
Filmmaker and Philosopher
Series: Philosophical Filmmakers
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Chantal Akerman turns her pioneering camera on neglected contexts, from transitional spaces like hotel lobbies and street corners to domestic spaces like kitchens and bedrooms. Through her wide-ranging films, Akerman addresses subjects such as home and homelessness, work and social reproduction, self and identity, and desire...
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Chantal Akerman turns her pioneering camera on neglected contexts, from transitional spaces like hotel lobbies and street corners to domestic spaces like kitchens and bedrooms.
Through her wide-ranging films, Akerman addresses subjects such as home and homelessness, work and social reproduction, self and identity, and desire in its many forms. This book is the first philosophical study of Akerman’s oeuvre.
Andreja Novakovic looks at patterns of staying put and moving on in the Belgian auteur’s deeply personal body of work, drawing on writers from Cavell to Beauvoir, and Federici. It is an absorbing reinterpretation of one of the most important directors of European cinema, whose Jeanne Dielman was recently selected as Sight and Sound’s Greatest Film of All Time.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781350361416
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 August 2025
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Illustration: 25 bw illus
Audience: Tertiary education
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 138.0mm
Height: 214.0mm
Weight: 295g
Pages: 232
About the Author
Andreja Novakovic is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley, USA and affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory. She is the author of Hegel on Second Nature in Ethical Life (2017).
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