New Takes in Film-philosophy

This collection displays a range of approaches and contemporary developments in the expanding field of film-philosophy. The essays explore central issues surrounding the conjunction of film and philosophy, presenting a varied yet coherent reflection on the nature of this conjunction.

HAVI CAREL is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at UWE, Bristol, UK. She is the author of Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger and of Illness, and the co-editor of What Philosophy Is. She has published on film and philosophy in Scan and the International Journal of Psychoanalysis. She is on the editorial board of Film-Philosophy.com.

GREG TUCK is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at UWE, Bristol, UK. He is the co-editor of Neo-noir and is currently writing a monograph entitled Philosophy, Cinema and Sex. He is also on the editorial board of Film-Philosophy.com.

Introduction: Philosophy of Film or Film-Philosophy?; H.Carel & G.Tuck
PART ONE: DEEP FOCUS - APPROACHES TO FILM-PHILOSOPHY
On the Very Possibility of Film-Philosophy; T.Wartenberg
Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Cinema? Notes towards a Romantic Film-Philosophy; R.Sinnerbrink
What is Philosophical Criticism?; A.Klevan
Confronting Negativity: Cinema and Adorno; H.Ford
Film Can't Philosophise (and Neither Can Philosophy): Cinematic Non-Philosophy; J.Mullarkey
PART TWO: WIDE ANGLES - THE BOUNDARIES OF FILM-PHILOSOPHY
The Loom of Fate: Graphic Origins and Digital Ontology in Wanted; S.Mulhall
Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better: Non-Cognitive Affective Responses to Film and Literature; A.Coplan & D.Matravers
Theory as Style: Adapting Crash via Baudrillard and Cronenberg; C.Constable
The Ghost is the Machine: Media-Philosophy and Materialism; K.Littau
Art, Cinema, Sex, Ontology: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the In-visible of Cinema; G.Tuck
PART THREE: DIRECTORS CUT - READINGS IN FILM-PHILOSOPHY
Fleshing Out the Image: Phenomenology, Pedagogy, and Derek Jarman's Blue; V.Sobchack
Learning from the Movies: The Coen Brothers and Moral Truth; J.Baggini
A Bleak Burlesque: Haneke's Funny Games; A.McGettigan
In the Grip of Grief: the Materiality of Mourning in Vital; H.Carel
Index