New Takes in Film-Philosophy
- New York Palgrave Macmillan 2011
- 259p
includes index and biblioraphy
Part I deep focus-Approaches to Film - Philosophy On the possibility of cinematic philosophy...........9 Re-enfranchising film: Towards a Romantic Film-Philosophy.......25 Notes on Stanley cavell and philosophical film criticism ..........48 Broken glass by the road: Adorno and a Cinema of Negativity.........65 Film can`t Philosophise : Introduction to a Non-philosophy of Cinema ...............86 2. Wide angles-the boundaries of Film-philosophy The loom of fate: Graphic origins and digital ontology in Wanted ...........103 Film, Literature and non-cognitive affect ............117 Theory as style: Adapting crah via baudrillard and cronenberg......................135 The ghost is the machine: Media - philosophy and materialism ........154 Art, Cinema, sex, ontology: Maurice merleau-ponty and the In-Visible of cinema .................171 3. Directors cut-readings in Film-Philosophy Fleshing out the image: Phenomenology, pedagogy, and derek jarman`s Blue ....................191 Serious men: The films of the coen brothers as ethics ...........................207 A bleak burlesque: Michael haneke`s Funny games as a Study in Violence ..........223 In the Grip of Grief: Epistemic Impotence and the Materiality of Mourning in Shinya tsukamoto`s Vital ................240