New Takes in Film-Philosophy

JULIAN BAGGINI Freelance journalist and author/editor of The Philosopher's Magazine CATHERINE CONSTABLE Associate Professor of Film and Television Studies at the University of Warwick, UK AMY COPLAN Assistant Professor at California State University Fullerton, USA HAMISH FORD Lecturer in Film, Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Newcastle, Australia ANDREW KLEVAN Fellow in Film Studies in St Anne's College, Oxford, UK KARIN 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, USA THOMAS 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