Cinematic Thinking

James Phillips is an Australian Research Council Fellow in the School of Philosophy and History at the University of New South Wales. He is the author of Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry (Stanford, 2005) and The Equivocation of Reason: Kleist Reading Kant (Stanford, 2007).

"The quality of the writing is uniformly excellent, and all of the contributors focus on philosophical theories that are germane to the films of the director in question." —CHOICE "It's a gala event whenever a group of committed philosophers, particularly ones as innovative as these, collectively writes about film. The unusual liveliness of this indispensable volume arises in part from the fact that these philosophers, in writing about a broad swathe of important cinema from the 1960's to the present, necessarily step into the role of critics, as writers including Benjamin, Barthes, and Blanchot defined this vocation. The collective authors of this useful as well as inspiring book rise to the multifaceted challenges of interdisciplinary cultural critique." - Henry Sussman "Finally! Useful and intelligent film theory! This collection is a careful and serious negotiation between philosophy and the metaphysical and conceptual worlds produced by the cinema." - Felicity Colman (University of Melbourne)

• @fmct:Contents @toc4:Contributorsiii @toc2:Introduction: What Can Cinema Do? @tocca:James Phillips000 @toc2:1Alfred Hitchcock: Fowl Play and the Domestication of Horror @tocca:Kelly Oliver000 @toc2:2Luchino Visconti: Insights into Flesh and Blood @tocca:Alexander Garc!a D'ttmann000 @toc2:3Michelangelo Antonioni: The Aestheticization of Time and Experience in The Passenger @tocca:Alison Ross000 @toc2:4Robert Altman: The West as Countermemory @tocca:Michael J. Shapiro000 @toc2:5Carlos Saura: Cinematic Poiesis @tocca:Krzysztof Ziarek000 @toc2:6Glauber Rocha: Hunger and Garbage @tocca:James Phillips000 @toc2:7Margarethe von Trotta: Leviathan in Germany @tocca:Cecilia Sj'holm000 @toc2:8Rainer Werner Fassbinder: The Subject of Film @tocca:Andrew J. Mitchell000 @toc2:9Wim Wenders: The Role of Memory @tocca:Jeff Malpas000 @toc2:10Claire Denis: Icon of Ferocity @tocca:Jean-Luc Nancy000 @toc4:Notes000 Index000