Apologies for error(s) about the date of the seminar; the correct date is Tuesday the 20th,
Michael Goddard
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Subject: Next Salford CCM seminar
Dear list members,
Please be advised of the next Salford CCM seminar on the 20th of October, a presentation on film philosophy from Robert Sinnerbrink, who is based on Sydney.
Please note also the change of the regular venue to Adelphi Building:
http://www.salford.ac.uk/travel/campus-map.pdf
Michael Goddard
Screens and Mediations Seminar Series 2009
5:00 - 6:30pm
20th October ~ Room AP307 Adelphi Building, Peru St, Salford: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&tab=wl
ADELPHI Research Institute
Communication, Cultural &
Media Studies Centre (CCM)
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Tuesday 20th October: Robert Sinnerbrink, Macquarie University , Sydney
'Why I am not a Cognitivist': Reflections on the Philosophy of Film and Film-Philosophy'
Contemporary film theory and philosophy of film has been undergoing something of a paradigm shift in recent decades. Grand Theory has been sharply challenged, even supplanted by the new wave of analytic and cognitivist approaches to film. Film theories inspired by movements in 'Continental' philosophy have been attacked for their dogmatism, lack of rigour, and obscurantism. In my discussion I shall explore an alternative approach to thinking about film that takes seriously the notion that 'film thinks'. Despite the superficial anatagonism between partisans of 'Continental' and 'analytic' approaches to film, I want to suggest that the relevant difference here is between traditional philosophy of film (where film remains the fixed object of conceptual analysis, quasi-scientific theorisation, etc.) and a more radical film-philosophy (where film is acknowledged to engage in thinking on its own terms, and hence the film-philosophy relationship between is more dialogical, reflective, and mutually transformative).
Robert Sinnerbrink is lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the author of Understanding Hegelianism (Acumen, 2007), co-editor of Critique Today (Brill, 2006), and has written numerous articles on film and philosophy, including discussions of films by Greenaway, Lynch, Malick, and von Trier.
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