European Film Theory

Temenuga Trifonova is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at York University, Canada. She is the author of The Image in French Philosophy.

• Introduction: That Perpetually Obscure Object of TheoryPart One: European Film Theory1. European Film Theory: From Crypto-Nationalism to Trans-Nationalism, Paul Coates2. The Aesthetics of Race in European Film Theory, Tobias Nagl3. The Disunity of Film Theory and the Disunity of Aesthetics, Casey Haskins4. Real Location, Fantasy Space, Performative Place: Double Occupancy and Mutual Interference in European Cinema, Thomas ElsaesserPart Two: Film and Philosophy5. Film as Philosophy: A Mission Impossible?, John Mullarkey6. Platonic Reconstruction and Residual Kantianism in Film Theory, Colin Burnett7. Epstein, Bergson, and Vision, Malcolm Turvey8. Heidegger and Cinema, Brian Price9. Listening and Touching, Looking and Thinking: The Dialogue in Philosophy and Film between Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis, Douglas MorreyPart Three: Politics, History, Ideology and Film Theory10. Fabulation and Contradiction: Jacques Ranciere on Cinema, Tom Conley11. The Gaze of Biocinema, A. Kiarina Kordela12. From Cinema to History: Kracauer's Shifting Philosophical Historiography, Scott MacKenzie13. Disposition: From Film Theory to Human Action, Astrid OesmannPart Four: Aesthetics and Film Theory14. Between the Ornament and the Corpse: Adolf Loos and Classical Film Theory, Rosalind Galt15. Baroque Dialectics or Dialectical Baroque: Sergei Eisenstein in/on Mexico, Masha Salazkina16. A Screen for Projection: Ricciotto Canudo's Exponential Aesthetics and the Parisian Avant-Gardes, Ara H. Merjian17. Synaesthesia in Film Theory, Sabine DoranPart Five: Realism Revisited18. Innocence and Ontology: The Truthfulness of Andre Bazin, Lisabeth During19. From Distraction to Indeterminancy to Distraction: Kracauer and Contemporary Film Realist Discourse, Temenuga Trifonova20. National Identity and Realism in Postwar Itlaian Film and Film Theory, Ora Gelley21. Neorealism at a Distance, Karl SchoonoverAppendix: Teaching AidContributorsIndex

'The essays in European Film Theory provide a long overdue critical remapping of what has been called 'theory' in contemporary film studies. No philosophical stone goes unturned in this remarkable volume, and many are then sculpted into provocative and original arguments.' - D.N. Rodowick, Harvard University, USA'A key resource for film theory... A richly detailed volume in every respect, the text is distinguished by its scope, the sweep of its rhetoric, and the numerous films it examines... Highly recommended.' - CHOICE