Cinema Against Doublethink

David Martin-Jones is Professor of Film Studies, University of Glasgow, UK. His research uses philosophy to explore world cinemas. He is the author/editor of eight books, has published in numerous international journals (e.g. Cinema Journal, Screen, Third Text), and edits the Bloomsbury series Thinking Cinema.

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Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction: One or many pasts?

Celine and Julie go Boating; Embrace of the Serpent

PART I Decolonising entrances to the past

1 History/Ethics: Interpreting stories from world history (Enrique Dussel)

2 Ethics/History: Hesitating in encountering lost pasts (Gilles Deleuze)

PART II Encounters with the past that is/is not preserved

3 4.54 (to 13.7) billion years: Planetary history, the natural contract, encountering earthly pasts

Uncle Boonmee who can Recall his Past Lives; Nostalgia for the Light

4 500 years: The North Atlantic trade circuit, the racial contract, encountering others’ pasts

How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman; Even the Rain

PART III Encounters with the present that passes

5 70 years: The Cold War, the social contract, encountering political pasts

The Act of Killing; At the Foot of the White Tree

6 45 years: Neoliberal globalisation, the personal contract, encountering bodily pasts

Carancho; Lady Vengeance

Conclusion: One or many faces of the (lost) past?

Alone in Berlin; Another Story of the World

Select bibliography

Index