Cinema Without Reflection: Jacques Derrida's Echopoiesis and Narcissim Adrift

by Akira Mizuta Lippit

Cinema without Reflection traces an implicit film theory in Jacques Derrida's oeuvre, especially in his frequent invocation of the myth of Echo and Narcissus. Derrida's reflections on the economies of image and sound that reverberate in this story, along with the spectral dialectics of love, mirrors, and poiesis, serve as the basis for a theory of cinema that Derrida perhaps secretly imagined.

Following Derrida's interventions on...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1517900042
• ISBN13: 9781517900045
• Release Date: March 2016
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.8" x 6.8"