New takes in film-philosophy / edited by Havi Carel and Greg Tuck.

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Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, UK ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan 2011.Description: xii, 259 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

0230250297 (pbk.)
9780230250291 (pbk.)

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DDC classification:

791.4 CAR

Contents:

Deep focus : approaches to film-philosophy. On the possibility of cinematic philosophy / Thomas E. Wartenberg ; Re-enfranchising film : towards a romantic film-philosophy / Robert Sinnerbrink ; Notes on Stanley Cavell and philosophical film criticism / Andrew Klevan ; Broken glass by the road : Adorno and a cinema of negativity / Hamish Ford ; Film can\'t philosophise (and neither can philosophy) : introduction to a non-philosophy of cinema / John Mullarkey -- Wide angles : the boundaries of film-philosophy. The loom of fate : graphic origins and digital ontology in Wanted / Stephen Mulhall ; Film, literature and non-cognitive affect / Amy Coplan and Derek Matravers ; Theory as style : adapting Crash via Baudrillard and Cronenberg / Catherine Constable ; The ghost is the machine : media-philosophy and materialism / Karin Littau ; Art, cinema, sex, ontology : Maurice Merleau-Ponti and the in-visible of cinema / Greg Tuck -- Directors cut : reading in film-philosophy. Fleshing out the image : phenomenoloogy, pedagogy, and Derek Jarman\'s Blue / Vivian Sobchack ; Serious men : the films of the Coen brothers as ethics / Julian Baggini ; A bleak burlesque : Michael Hanake\'s Funny games as a study in violence / Andrew McGettigan ; In the grip of grief : epistemic impotence and the materialisty of mourning in Shinya Tsukamoto\'s Vital / Havi Carel.

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	LSAD Library Main Collection	791.4 CAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100397398

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

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.

Includes filmographies.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

JULIAN BAGGINI Freelance journalist and author/editor of The Philosopher's MagazineCATHERINE CONSTABLE Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, UKAMY COPLAN Assistant Professor at California State University Fullerton, USAHAMISH FORD Lecturer in Film, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle, AustraliaANDREW KLEVAN Fellow in Film Studies in St Anne's College, Oxford, UKKARIN LITTAU Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Film Studies at the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex, UKDEREK MATRAVERS Head of the Philosophy Department at The Open University, and Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy in Cambridge, UKANDREW MCGETTIGAN works at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design and the University of Westminster, UKSTEPHEN MULHALL teaches philosophy at New College, Oxford, UKJOHN MULLARKEY Lecturer in European Philosophy, Film and Philosophy at the University of Dundee, UKROBERT SINNERBRINK Lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, AustraliaVIVIAN SOBCHACK Professor Emeritus of Critical Media Studies in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA, USATHOMAS WARTENBERG Professor of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College, USA