Havi Carel - New Takes in Film-Philosophy

New Takes in Film-Philosophy

Also by Havi Carel

ILLNESS

LIFE AND DEATH IN FREUD AND HEIDEGGER

WHAT PHILOSOPHY IS: CONTEMPORARY PHILOSOPHY IN ACTION (co-edited with D. Gamez)

Also by Greg Tuck

NEO NOIR (co-edited with M. Bould and K. Glitre)

PHILOSOPHY, CINEMA AND SEX

Edited by
Havi Carel
and
Greg Tuck

Introduction, selection and editorial matter Havi Carel and Greg Tuck 2011 Individual chapters Contributors 2011

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Introduction
Havi Carel and Greg Tuck

Thomas E. Wartenberg

Robert Sinnerbrink

Andrew Klevan

Hamish Ford

John Mullarkey

Stephen Mulhall

Amy Coplan and Derek Matravers

Catherine Constable

Karin Littau

Greg Tuck

Vivian Sobchack

Julian Baggini

Andrew McGettigan

Vital Havi Carel

Julian Baggini is a freelance journalist and author and the editor of The Philosophers Magazine. He is the author of numerous philosophy books, such as The Pig Who Wanted To Be Eaten, What Philosophers Think, Complaint, and Whats It All About?

Havi Carel is a Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at UWE, Bristol. She is the author of Life and Death in Freud and Heidegger and of Illness and the coeditor of What Philosophy Is. She has published on film and philosophy in Scan, the International Journal of Psychoanalysis and in edited volumes. She is on the editorial board of Film-Philosophy.com.

Catherine Constable is Associate Professor of Film & Television Studies at the University of Warwick. She is the author of Thinking in Images and Philosophy as Adaptation: Jean Baudrillard and The Matrix Trilogy.

Amy Coplan is Assistant Professor at California State University Fullerton. She has published widely on film and philosophy and is the editor of one of Routledges Philosophers On Film series titles, Bladerunner. She is particularly interested in the philosophy of emotions, and the role of non-cognitive affect in understanding film.

Hamish Ford is Lecturer in Film, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle (Australia) and the author of a number of publications on the relationship between cinema and philosophy, including Difficult Relations: Film Studies and Continental European Philosophy in The SAGE Handbook of Film Studies (2008). His latest work charts cinemas complex spatial and conceptual playing out of postcolonialisms back-history and its troubled contemporary staging in a chapter entitled From Over There to Virtual Presence: Camp de Thiaroye The Battle of Algiers Hidden (Postcolonial Cinema Studies, forthcoming).

Andrew Klevan is University Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St Annes College, Oxford. He is the author of Disclosure of the Everyday: Undramatic Achievement in Narrative Film (2000) and Film Performance: From Achievement to Appreciation (2005).

Karin Littau is Director of Research in the Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies at the University of Essex. She is the author of Theories of Reading: Books, Bodies, Bibliomania (2006) and Literature Before and After Film (forthcoming). She is also co-editor of several collections, including Inventions: Literature and Science (2005) and Cinematicity (2009) both for Comparative Critical Studies.

Derek Matravers is Professor of Philosophy at The Open University and Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Philosophy in Cambridge. He has published extensively on the relation between art and the emotions, and is currently working on the psychological and philosophical aspects of reading.

Andrew McGettigan is a Research Fellow at Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design (University of the Arts London). He writes on film, the arts and contemporary electronic music. His most recent publications have focused on the concept of history in the work of Walter Benjamin.

Stephen Mulhall teaches philosophy at New College, Oxford. He has written extensively on the work of Stanley Cavell, an interest which inspired his 2002 book On film.

John Mullarkey is Professor of Film and Television at Kingston University, London. He is the author of Bergson and Philosophy (1999), Post-Continental Philosophy: An Outline (2006) and Philosophy and the Moving Image: Refractions of Reality (2010) and is Editor of Film-Philosophy. He is currently working on a bookfilm project dealing with the representations of animals in film and philosophy.

Robert Sinnerbrink is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University, Sydney. He is the author of