Derrida and Film Studies

Kamil Lipiński, Ph.D. in Philosophy, is an Assistant at the Contemporary Art Gallery Garbary 48. Alma Mater – Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (two degrees in Philosophy and Cultural Studies). His numerous publications include Mapowanie obrazu. Między estetyczną teorią a praktyką (Image mapping. Between Aesthetic Theory and Practice, 2022) and “French Cultural Theory: Contexts and Applications” in Sensus Historiae (Ed., 2015–2016). He was a runner-up in the 2019 Postgraduate Essay Prize awarded by the Postcolonial Studies Association/Journal of Postcolonial Writing.Andrzej Marzec, Ph.D., Adam Mickiewicz University, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy. He has published monographs and articles on contemporary philosophy including Antropocień. Filozofia i estetyka po końcu świata (Antroposhade. Philosophy and Aesthetics after the End of the World, 2021).

• ContentsAcknowledgementsList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionKamil LipińskiPART 1Derrida and the Variety of Specters – Cinema as the Haunted House1 Jacques Derrida and Cinema as a Work of Mourning CharonRaoul Kirchmayr2 To Speak of Mourning or of Anything Else: The Historical Muslim Courtesan Film as a Work of Art at/of MourningTirna Chatterjee and Prateek Rawat3 Derrida on Cinema’s Spectral Images: Time, Repetition, and BeliefSusana Viegas4 Infinite Responsibilities of The Grandmaster: Ip Man, Derrida, and BeyondIan Fong5 “Vive les Fantômes!” or the Hauntology of Cinematic ImageMiłosz Stelmach6 Derrida, the Specters of Marx and the End of History: The Presence of the Ghost in Angelopoulos’ film Ulysses’ Gaze (1995)Nikolaos SarafianosPART 2“Hieroglyphics” of Cinema: Interpreting the Writing and Différance7 The Post Card as a Journey of Being: Destinerrance and Film InterpretationDavide Persico8 Stupidity in The Idiots and Au Hazard Balthazar: Derrida on the Limits of ReasonYonathan Listik9 Derrida’s “Hieroglyphic” Writing in a Palimpsestic Case StudyKamil LipińskiPART 3Voice and Phenomenon: Tracing Speech and Sound10 QWhat Is Reading? Absence and Presence in Silent Dialogue IntertitlesTomer Nechushtan11 Asonority: Derrida in Film Sound TheoryArzu Karaduman12 From the Oral Tradition to the Digital Text: Cinematic Différance in Dislocation BluesJack RutherfordPART 4Politics of Friendship: Ethics, Hospitality and the Other Question13 The Experience of Cinema as an Experience of Ethics in DerridaMariana Almeida Pereira14 ‘Community of Vision’: Politics and Collectivity in Derrida’s CinemaCillian Ó Fathaigh15 The (Im)possibility of Friendship in Fassbinder’s Fox and His Friends: A Derridean CritiqueAmresh Sinha16 Cinema of Walten: Alterity and Worldhood in Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless WomanAhmet YuceIndex