Dialogic Materialism: Bakhtin, Embodiment and Moving Image Art

Dialogic MaterialismBakhtin, Embodiment and Moving Image Art\nAuthor(s): Miriam Jordan-Haladyn\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Peter Lang Publishing Inc, United States\nImprint: Peter Lang Publishing Inc\nISBN-13: 9781433124457, 978-1433124457\nSynopsis\nDialogic Materialism: Bakhtin, Embodiment and Moving Image Art argues for the relevance of Mikhail Bakhtins theories of dialogism as a means of examining the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary moving image art forms. The volume comprises six chapters divided into two sections. The first section, Part I, illustrates the key concepts in Bakhtins multifaceted dialogism and develops these ideas in relation to moving image art. The main focus of this first part is the proposal of what the author terms dialogic materialism, which builds upon the Marxism inherent in Bakhtin, examining the material processes of cultural exchange with a particular emphasis on multi-perspective subjective relations. Part II consists of case studies that ap.