New Takes in Film-Philosophy

JULIAN BAGGINI Freelance journalist and author/editor of The Philosopher's MagazineCATHERINE CONSTABLE Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, UK AMY COPLAN Assistant Professor at California State University Fullerton, USAHAMISH FORD Lecturer in Film, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle, AustraliaANDREW KLEVAN Fellow in Film Studies in St Anne's College, Oxford, UKKARIN LITTAU Senior Lecturer and Director of the Centre for Film Studies at the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, University of Essex, UK DEREK MATRAVERS Head of the Philosophy Department at The Open University, and Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy in Cambridge, UK ANDREW MCGETTIGAN works at Central Saint Martin's College of Art and Design and the University of Westminster, UK STEPHEN MULHALL teaches philosophy at New College, Oxford, UK JOHN MULLARKEY Lecturer in European Philosophy, Film and Philosophy at the University of Dundee, UK ROBERT SINNERBRINK Lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia VIVIAN SOBCHACK Professor Emeritus of Critical Media Studies in the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA, USATHOMAS WARTENBERG Professor of Philosophy at Mount Holyoke College, USA

• Introduction: Philosophy of Film or Film-Philosophy?; H.Carel & G.Tuck PART ONE: DEEP FOCUS - APPROACHES TO FILM-PHILOSOPHY On the Very Possibility of Film-Philosophy; T.Wartenberg Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Cinema? Notes towards a Romantic Film-Philosophy; R.Sinnerbrink What is Philosophical Criticism?; A.Klevan Confronting Negativity: Cinema and Adorno; H.Ford Film Can't Philosophise (and Neither Can Philosophy): Cinematic Non-Philosophy; J.Mullarkey PART TWO: WIDE ANGLES - THE BOUNDARIES OF FILM-PHILOSOPHY The Loom of Fate: Graphic Origins and Digital Ontology in Wanted ; S.Mulhall Anything You Can Do, I Can Do Better: Non-Cognitive Affective Responses to Film and Literature; A.Coplan & D.Matravers Theory as Style: Adapting Crash via Baudrillard and Cronenberg; C.Constable The Ghost is the Machine: Media-Philosophy and Materialism; K.Littau Art, Cinema, Sex, Ontology: Maurice Merleau-Ponty and the In-visible of Cinema; G.Tuck PART THREE: DIRECTORS CUT - READINGS IN FILM-PHILOSOPHY Fleshing Out the Image: Phenomenology, Pedagogy, and Derek Jarman's Blue ; V.Sobchack Learning from the Movies: The Coen Brothers and Moral Truth; J.Baggini A Bleak Burlesque: Haneke's Funny Games ; A.McGettigan In the Grip of Grief: the Materiality of Mourning in Vital ; H.Carel Index

'New Takes in Film-Philosophy is a distinguished collection of essays on the philosophy of film, which offers an invaluable overview of the ongoing debates about whether films can do philosophy and if they are appropriate subjects for philosophical analysis. Illustrating a multiplicity of philosophical approaches to film, the essays explore the boundaries of film-philosophy and offer insightful readings of particular films.' - Daniel Shaw, Lock Haven University, USA 'The encounter between the cinema and philosophy has been crucial to the development of thinking about film and to thinking itself. This volume gathers some of the pivotal writers in the area and provides a diverse, accessible and sophisticated introduction to the major debates surrounding film-philosophy. The articles range from general theoretical discussion to close film analysis and together articulate a new solution to the problematic divide between analytic and continental philosophy. The chapters by Thomas Wartenberg, Robert Sinnerbrink and Andrew Klevan are required reading for anyone interested in cinema or philosophy.' - David Sorfa, Liverpool John Moores University, UK