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Re: Film and philosophy: general vs specific methodology

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Rebecca Einhorn <[log in to unmask]>

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Havi, if discussions center on a particular film, then you are  
centering on the philosophies of that particular filmmaker and the
milieu within which he and the film exist.  If you take the broader  
approach and focus on film-philosophy in general, then
it allows you to step back and see the subject (film-philosophy) in  
the context of;  history,  film genres,
social/political influences, etc. More important than all of that for  
me;  is where philosophic underpinnings in film will go from here.
Film and art respond to milieu.  Previously film-philosophy had nice  
little pockets of contained genres that grew out of a certain time and  
place.
We now have a global milieu.  For me, it is far more relevant to take  
the generalized but focused approached and investigate signs of
how philosophy is currently responding to the global milieu and then  
look to where those responses point.

Regards,
Rebecca


On Feb 28, 2010, at 4:31 AM, Havi Carel wrote:

> One issue I have been interested in lately is the following:
> Some people think that film-philosophy ought to be developed as a  
> general program; others insist that the way to 'do' film-philosophy  
> is by specific readings of specific films or even scenes (e.g.  
> Mulhall).
>
> I was wondering if anyone had any thoughts on whether film- 
> philosophy is better developed as a general program, or whether it  
> is better developed in a more piecemeal fashion, by engaging with  
> specific film/ scenes and avoiding claims about film in general.
>
> In other words - is film-philosophy a generalisable approach or  
> should philosophical readings of film be tailored only to and  
> limited to a specific film?
>
> (This is not to say that there is only one type of film-philosophy,  
> or that I am only endorsing philosophical readings of film as film- 
> philosophy. This is simply a specific issue I have been thinking  
> about lately.)
>
> Best wishes
>
> Havi
>
> ---
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> Dr Havi Hannah Carel
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> Subject: New Title: Moving People, Moving Images: Cinema and  
> Trafficking in the New Europe
>
> Dear friends and colleagues,
>
> I am writing to announce the release of Moving People, Moving Images:
> Cinema and Trafficking in the New Europe by William Brown, Dina
> Iordanova, and Leshu Torchin.
>
> I hope this is of interest to you.
>
> ***
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>
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> Price £17.99 (UK), $29.00 (US)
> 257pp.
> Available for purchase from: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/filmbooks
>
> In the past decade, the dramatic rise in migration and the demise of
> national borders across the ‘new’ Europe have helped to turn human
> traffic into one of the dominant narratives of contemporary cinema.
> Moving People, Moving Images focuses on the current cycle of films
> that play upon global anxieties about trafficking and reflects on
> recent films that depict white slavery, drug trafficking and
> undocumented labour. The volume considers a range of films including
> the work of internationally renowned directors such as Promised Land
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>
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>
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> exclusive, domain of governments, NGOs, activist organizations and the
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> -- Aniko Imre, University of Southern California
>
>
>
> ***
> About the authors:
>
> William Brown teaches Film Studies at the University of St Andrews.
> His research interests include digital technology and cinema,
> cognitive approaches to cinema, and transnational cinema.  His work
> has been published in various journals and edited collections, and he
> is the co-editor of Deleuze and Film (Edinburgh University Press,
> 2011).  He is the editor/manager of the collaborative film blog,
> http://cinemasalon.ning.com.
>
> Dina Iordanova has built an academic career as a specialist on the
> cinema of Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Her more recent work is
> focused on business models and distribution patterns within the
> international film industries. She is Director of the Centre for Film
> Studies at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where she leads
> The Leverhulme Trust-funded project ‘Dynamics of World Cinema’
> (www.st-andrews.ac.uk/worldcinema). She is also the editor and
> publisher of the Film Festival Yearbook (FFY) series, which has
> recently released Film Festival Yearbook 2: Film Festivals and
> Imagined Communities. Her recent work appears in Cinema at the
> Periphery (2010) and her blog, Dinaview.com.
>
> Leshu Torchin teaches Film Studies at the University of St Andrews.
> Her research focus is on screen media, advocacy, and human rights. Her
> work has appeared in a range of publications including Third Text,
> Film & History, American Anthropologist, and Cineaste and in
> collections such as The Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and
> Visual Culture (Wallflower, 2007). She is currently completing her
> book project, Creating the Witness: Genocide in the Age of Film, Video
> and the Internet.
>
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