Film Art and Film: Toward the Function of Abstraction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface VII
4. Introduction: “The Darkness of the Lived Moment” XV
5. PART I The Texts
6. The Principle of Everydayness and Historical Time 1
7. On Space (Introduction and Conclusion) 17
8. The Academy and Journalism 36
9. Laughter, Comedy, and Humor 50
10. The Fate of Japanism: From Fascism to Emperorism 59
11. Theory of the Intelligentsia and Theory of Technology: Proposing to Reexamine the Theory of Technology 69
12. Liberalist Philosophy and Materialism: Against the Two Types of Liberalist Philosophy 81
13. The Police Function 97
14. Film as a Reproduction of the Present: Custom and the Masses 103
15. Film Art and Film: Toward the Function of Abstraction 114
16. PART II Critical Expansions
17. Here, Now: Everyday Space as Cultural Critique 123
18. The Actuality of Journalism and the Possibility of Everyday Critique 150
19. The Dialectic of Laughter and Tosaka’s Critical Theory 176
20. Immaterial Technique and Mass Intelligence: Tosaka Jun on Technology 194
21. Filmic Materiality and Historical Materialism: Tosaka Jun and the Prosthetics of Sensation 218
22. Notes toward a Critical Analysis of Chronic Recession and Ideology: Tosaka Jun on the Police Function 255
23. The Multitude and the Holy Family: Empire, Fascism, and the War Machine 274
24. Notes on the Contributors 297
25. Index 301