Film, Negation and Freedom

Will Kitchen was Teaching Fellow in Film Studies at the University of Southampton, UK. He is the author of Romanticism and Film: Franz Liszt and Audio-Visual Explanation (2020), also published by Bloomsbury Academic.

• List of FiguresIntroduction PART I1. No Way Out: Romanticism in the Films of Arthur Penn and Lindsay Anderson2. Romanticism After Auschwitz: The Tradition of Critical Philosophy3. Empty Infinities: Freedom and the Doctrine of ActionPART II4. The Artist’s Calling: Mickey One (1965)5. Enemies of Promise: O Lucky Man! (1973)6. Dialectic of Enlightenment: The Missouri Breaks (1976)7. The Tyranny of Spectacle: Britannia Hospital (1982)Appendix Bibliography

Art and humanity, rebellion and justice. Film, Negation and Freedom takes these most fundamental of Romantic concerns and uses them to reinvigorate the intellectual underpinnings of film study. In his elucidation of Romanticism in terms of Dark and Light, Will Kitchen provokes a re-examination of the very nature of cinema, as well as of modern intellectual history, through extended discussion of two of its most unique practitioners.