Lucy Bolton is Professor of Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Film and Female Consciousness: Irigaray, Cinema and Thinking Women (2011) and Contemporary Cinema and the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch (2019, EUP) as well as the co-editor of' Lasting Screen Stars: Images that Fade and Personas that Endure (2016) and Contemporary Screen Ethics (2023, EUP). She is co-series editor of EUP’s Visionaries series.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsList of illustrationsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Film as art, and cinema as a hall of reflectionChapter 3: Film as a moral fableChapter 4: Film and the existential hero(ine)Chapter 5: Film, love and goodnessChapter 6: Film, comedy and tragedyChapter 7: Film and women’s storiesChapter 8: Film and philosophyBibliographyFilmographyIndex

Bolton’s work inspires further viewings of the films she discusses, but perhaps its chief quality is that it not only raises questions about spectatorship now altered by the Murdochian vision she embellishes, but it also prompts a great deal of questioning about oneself as a viewer, as well as about the conditions of contemporary culture.

Lucy Bolton is Professor of Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Film and Female Consciousness: Irigaray, Cinema and Thinking Women (2011) and Contemporary Cinema and the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch (2019, EUP) as well as the co-editor of' Lasting Screen Stars: Images that Fade and Personas that Endure (2016) and Contemporary Screen Ethics (2023, EUP). She is co-series editor of EUP’s Visionaries series.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsList of illustrationsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Film as art, and cinema as a hall of reflectionChapter 3: Film as a moral fableChapter 4: Film and the existential hero(ine)Chapter 5: Film, love and goodnessChapter 6: Film, comedy and tragedyChapter 7: Film and women’s storiesChapter 8: Film and philosophyBibliographyFilmographyIndex

Bolton’s work inspires further viewings of the films she discusses, but perhaps its chief quality is that it not only raises questions about spectatorship now altered by the Murdochian vision she embellishes, but it also prompts a great deal of questioning about oneself as a viewer, as well as about the conditions of contemporary culture.

Lucy Bolton is Professor of Film Studies at Queen Mary University of London. She is the author of Film and Female Consciousness: Irigaray, Cinema and Thinking Women (2011) and Contemporary Cinema and the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch (2019, EUP) as well as the co-editor of' Lasting Screen Stars: Images that Fade and Personas that Endure (2016) and Contemporary Screen Ethics (2023, EUP). She is co-series editor of EUP’s Visionaries series.

• AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsList of illustrationsChapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Film as art, and cinema as a hall of reflectionChapter 3: Film as a moral fableChapter 4: Film and the existential hero(ine)Chapter 5: Film, love and goodnessChapter 6: Film, comedy and tragedyChapter 7: Film and women’s storiesChapter 8: Film and philosophyBibliographyFilmographyIndex

Bolton’s work inspires further viewings of the films she discusses, but perhaps its chief quality is that it not only raises questions about spectatorship now altered by the Murdochian vision she embellishes, but it also prompts a great deal of questioning about oneself as a viewer, as well as about the conditions of contemporary culture.