The Worldhood of the Cinematic Image

A close analysis of the specifically cinematographic procedure in Akira Kurosawa’s ‘Dream’ Crows reveals it as an articulated and insightful philosophical statement, endowed with general relevance concerning ‘natural’ perception, phenomenological Erlebnis, mechanical image and aesthetic rapture. The antagonism between the Benjaminian lineage of a mechanical irreducibility of the cinematic image to anthropocentric categories, and the Cartesian tradition of a film-philosophy still relying on the equally irreducible structure of the intentional act, be it the one of a deeply embodied and enworlded counsciousness, in accounting for the essential structure of film and spectator (and their relation), i.e., the antagonism between the decentering primacy of the image and the self-centered primacy of perception, cannot be settled through a simple Phenomenological shift from occularcentric, intentional counsciousness to its embodyment ‘in-the-world’ as yet another carrier of intentionality. Still it remains to be explained what is it in the mechanical image that is able to so deeply affect the human flesh, and conversely, to what features in the human bodily experience is its mechanical other, the fascinating image, so successfuly adressing? It should be expected from the anti-Cartesianism of both the early and the late Merleau-Ponty the textual support for an approach to the essential condition of passivity in movie watching, that would be convergent with Benjamin. The Chapter ‘Le sentir’, in Phénoménologie de la perception, will offer us the proper guide to elucidate what we are already perceiving and conceiving in Kurosawa’s film, where the ex-static phenomenological body of the aesthetical contemplator ‘enters the frame’ like the Benjaminian surgeon enters the body and like the painter - and always already like our deepest level of ‘sensing’, previously to any act of cousciousness - ‘just looses himself in the scene before him’. The Polichinello secret of cinema watching is nonetheless too evident to be seen, and that is where Phenomenological description and reduction are still required.

Lista de tesis presentadas en la Escuela de Historia y Geografía de la Universidad y en el programa de Maestría en Historia, 1945- 1986

IntroducciónEl objetivo de este trabajo es proporcionar un inventario de todas las tesis presentadas en los campos de Historia y Geografía de 1945a 1986, El mismo ha sido organizado en tres partes:En títulos y autores organizados cronológicamente, con una numeración secuencial. Al pie la refere4ncia para su localización en las Bibliotecas Carlos Monge Alfaro (BCMA) y Eugenio Fonseca Tortós (BEFT), ésta última localizada en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales.Indice lo autores ordenados alfabéticamente, con indicación del número para ser localizados en la primera parte.indice temático, Este índice es bastante general, se trató de condensar la gran variedad de títulos en unos pocos temas, también ordenados alfabéticamente con la numeración que refiere la primera parte...