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for any of you teaching in screen-based media/ film / theory / philosophy classes check
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Film, Theory and Philosophy  The Key Thinkers


Editor(s):Felicity Colman  
http://www.acumenpublishing.co.uk/display.asp?K=e2009013014160269

DESCRIPTION:
Philosophy,and in particular continental philosophy, has provided a conceptualunderpinning for
cinema since its beginnings, especially in thedevelopment of cinematic aesthetics. In its turn, film
has rethoughtthe abstractions of space and time and the categories of sex and genderand has created
new concepts which illuminate phenomenology,metaphysics and epistemology. 

Film, Theory and Philosophy brings together leading scholarsto provide a detailed overview of the
key thinkers who have shaped thefield of film philosophy. The thinkers include
continentalphilosophers, “post-continental” philosophers, analytic philosophers,film-makers, film
reviewers, sociologists, and cultural theorists. Theessays reveal how philosophy can be applied to
film analysis and howfilm can be used to illustrate philosophical problems. But moreimportantly, the
essays explore how film has shaped what philosophythinks and how philosophy has lead to a
reappraisal of film. The bookwill prove an invaluable reference and guide to readers interested in
adeeper understanding of the issues and insights presented by filmphilosophy.


REVIEWS:
"Withcontributions from highly respected scholars in the field, this workwill be an indispensable
point of reference for all those who want tounderstand the complex relation between philosophical
reflection andfilm as it developed from the early decades of the twentieth centuryonwards." – Ian
James, University of Cambridge
"Announcements of the death of cinema are premature. As film spillsout into digital downloads and
in-flight entertainment, it still hasthe unique position of defining both twentieth-century
modernity andtwenty-first-century contemporaneity. The authors gathered here give usa radical survey
of the most challenging and exciting intersections ofcinema and philosophical thinking. A handbook
for the next generationof film scholars." – Sean Cubitt, Director of the Program in Media and
Communications, University of Melbourne


AUTHOR BIO:
Felicity Colman is Senior Lecturer in Film Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University.

CONTENTS:
Introduction: What is Film-Philosophy? Felicity Colman 
PART 1: WHAT IS CINEMA? 
1. Hugo Münsterberg, Robert Sinnerbrink 
2. Vilem Flusser, Adrian Martin 
3. Siegfried Kracauer, Drehli Robnik 
4. Theodor Adorno, Julie Kuhlken 
5. Antonin Artaud, Anna Powell 
6. Henri Bergson, Dorothea Olkowski 
7. Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Helen Fielding 
8. Emmanuel Levinas, Sarah Cooper 
9. Andre Bazin, Hunter Vaughan 
10. Roland Barthes, Colin Gardner 
PART 2: POLITICS OF THE CINEMATIC CENTURY 
11. Serge Daney, Garin Dowd 
12. Jean-Luc Godard, Zsuzsa Baross 
13. Stanley Cavell, Rex Butler 
14. Jean-Luc Nancy, Clare Colebrook 
15. Jacques Derrida, Louise Burchill 
16. Gilles Deleuze, John Mullarkey 
17. Sarah Kofman, Tom Conley 
18. Paul Virilio, Felicity Colman 
19. Jean Baudrillard, Catherine Constable 
20. Francois Lyotard, Lisa Trahair 
21. Fredric Jameson, Scott Durham 
22. Felix Guattari, Gary Genosko 
PART 3: CINEMATIC NATURE 
23. Raymond Bellour, Michael Goddard 
24. Christian Metz, Richard Rushton 
25. Julia Kristeva, Patricia MacCormack 
26. Laura Mulvey, David Sorfa 
27. Homi Bhabha, Patricia Pisters 
28. Slavoj Zizek, Laurence Simmons 
29. Stephen Heath, Fred Botting 
30. Alain Badiou, Stephen Zepke 
31. Jacques Rancière, Sudeep Dasgupta  
32. Giorgio Agamben, Christian McCrea  
Notes 
Bibliography 
Index


ISBN: 1844651851ISBN-13: 9781844651856Publication Date: 31/11/2009Pages: 416 (244 x 172mm) Format:
PaperbackPublished Price: £19.99Discount Price: £15.99
Also available in Hardback (1844651843), priced
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