Thinking Film

Richard Kearney is Charles B. Seelig Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, USA. He is the author of over 20 books on European philosophy and literature (including two novels and a volume of poetry) and has edited or co-edited 14 more. Murray Littlejohn is Senior Instructor, Humanities and Languages, University of New Brunswick, Canada.

Introduction – Richard Kearney and M. E. Littlejohn

Part 1. Classic Philosophers on Film

1. The Thought of Movies, Stanley Cavell

2. On Cinema, Gilles Deleuze

Part 2: Thinking on Films

3. Film as Philosophy and Cinematic Thinking, Robert Sinnerbrink

4. Theory, Therapy and Classic Hollywood Movies, M.E. Littlejohn

5. Missing Mothers/Desiring Daughters: Framing the Sight of Women, Naomi Scheman

6. Why is ‘Leap Year’ not a Cavellian Comedy of Remarriage?, Stephen Mulhall

7. Film and Television as Forms of Shared Experience, Sandra Laugier

8. What Does it Mean to Have A Cinematic Idea? Deleuze and Kurosawa’s Stray Dog, David Deamer

9. The Active Eye (Revisted): Toward a Phenomenology of Cinematic Movement, Vivian Sobchack

10. Rethinking Monster Movies: Men In Black, Alien Resurrection and Apocalypse Now, Richard Kearney

11. A Plural Transcendence: When Film Does Phenomenology, Anna Westin

12. I Wake up Screaming: Kansas and Beyond, Anthony Steinbock

13. Mediating Fairy Stories in Words and Images: Warring Magics in J.R.R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson’s Lord of the Rings, Stephanie Rumpza

Part 3: Thinking with Films

14. On Wim Wender’s Paris, Texas, Richard Kearney

15. On Larissa Shepitko’s The Ascent, Fanny Howe

16. On Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, Brian Treanor

17. On Sidney Lumet’s Serpico, Sam B. Girgus

18. On Antwone Fisher’s Antwone Fisher, Alberto G. Urquidez

19. On Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Our Little Sister, Paul Freaney

20. On Lars Von Trier’s The House that Jack Built, John Panteleimon Manoussakis

21. On Robert Bresson’s Diary of a Country Priest, J. E. Grefenstette

22. On Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice, Joseph S. O’Leary

23. On Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev, Patrick Hederman

24. On Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Double Life of Veronique, Joseph Kickasola

25. On Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful 8, Matthew Clemente

26. On Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums, John Fardy

27. On Persichetti, Ramsey, and Rothman’s Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse, Anne M. Carpenter

28. On the Dardenne Brothers’ The Young Ahmed, Joel Mayward

29. On John Huston’s The Dead, Magnus Ferguson

30. On Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, Jason Wirth