New Takes in Film-Philosophy

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