Bernd Herzogenrath is professor of American literature and culture at Goethe University of Frankfurt am Main, Germany. He is the author of An Art of Desire: Reading Paul Auster and An American Body Politic: A Deleuzian Approach.

• ContentsIntroduction. Film and/as Philosophy: An Elective Affinity? Bernd Herzogenrath 1. Striking Poses: Gesture, Image, and Remake in the Cinematic Bergson John Ó Maoilearca 2. Hugo MÜnsterberg, Film, and Philosophy Robert Sinnerbrink 3. Different, Even Wholly Irrational Arguments: The Film-Philosophy of BÉla BalÁzs Adrian Martin 4. This is Your Brain on Cinema: Antonin Artaud Gregory Flaxman 5. From Lyrosophy to “Anti-Philosophy”: The Thought of Cinema in Jean Epstein Christophe Wall-Romana 6. Montage Eisenstein: Mind the Gap Julia Vassilieva 7. AndrÉ Bazin’s Film Theory and the History of Ideas Angela Dalle Vacche 8. Strange Topologics: Deleuze Takes a Ride Down David Lynch’s Lost Highway Bernd Herzogenrath 9. Hurray for Hollywood: Philosophy and Cinema According to Stanley Cavell Elisabeth Bronfen 10. Thinking Cinema with Alain Badiou Alex Ling 11. Thinking as Feast: Raymonde Carasco Nicole Brenez 12. RanciÈre’s Film Theory as Deviation Tom Conley 13. Movie-Made Philosophy NoËl Carroll 14. “Not Time’s Fool”: Marriage as an Ethical Relationship in Michael Haneke’s AmourThomas E. Wartenberg 15. Experience and Explanation in the Cinema Murray Smith Acknowledgments Contributors Index

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