30 www.libros.unam.mx Jac ques Rancière. En los bordes del cine Jacques Rancière. At The Edge Of Cinema Armando Casas and Leticia Flores Farfán, coordinators “Jacques Rancière. On The Edge of Cinema offers our community the reflections of a philosopher, nowadays essential, in the cinematographic art and, perhaps, the last and most important living Marxist philosopher today”. From the introduction • This is an unpublished interview with philosopher Jacques Rancière. • The themes in the book range a wide array of topics in his experience as a film critic. • The book contains a picture catalogue and an index of quoted films. About the author Armando Casas Pérez (Mexico City, 1964) is a graduate from cuec at unam. He was director of the same school from 2004 to 2012, and since this last year, he has been a member of the Mexican Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences. His long career as a film director and producer has been widely renowned with awards such as the Diosa de Plata for best Film Debut (2002) for the movie Un mundo raro. In 2003 he obtained the National University Award for Young Academics in the Area of Artistic Creation and Culture Extension. Leticia Flores Farfán holds a phd in Philosophy by the unam, where she lectures at the Philosophy and Literature School. Along with Alberto Constante she founded the research group “Margin Reflections”. Some of her published works are George Bataille: Erotism and the Constitution of Transforming Agents (co-authored with Gerardo de la Fuente Lora, 2004) and Athens, City of Athena, Myth and Politics in Athenean Democracy (2007). 1st edition: unam, Mexico, 2014 Size: 6.69 in x 9.06 in Series: Estudios en cine y teatro / Cátedra Ingmar Bergman ISBN: 978-607-02-6241-8 MSRP $12.95 USD Author’s Awards Special Mention from the Critics’ Award and the ocic Award at the 16th Mexican Independent Cinema Exhibition, Guadalajara. Ariel for Best Supporting Actor at the 44th Ariel Awards Ceremony, Mexico. ocic Award at the Ibero-American Film Festival in Santa Cruz, Bolivia. Cinema Readership • Film students and professors • Philosophers, social scientists and humanists • Film critics, photographers and artists By the same author Greed. A History of Affections Armando Casas, Leticia Flores Farfán, coordinators Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Lust. A History of Affections Armando Casas, Leticia Flores Farfán and Paul Majkut, coordinators Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Stories on Violence Armando Casas and Leticia Flores Farfán, coordinators Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México Thinking of cinema as a social transformation vessel has been one of the passions in philosopher Jacques Rancière career. His vast work as a critic and essayist places him today as a must read in Art History, Photography, Dance, Politics and Literature. In this book we are witnesses of an intimate chat with this acute thinker, in which he unveils his life’s work. Accompanied by a selection of pictures and a quoted films index, this edition turns out to be one of the most recent jewels in the Ingmar Bergman Chair at unam.
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