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.

From the groundbreaking works of Cavell and Deleuze, through contemporary philosophies of film, to a philosophical working through of particular films, this book provides a detailed guide to some of the most important philosophical work on film of the last half-century. Kearney and Littlejohn have done somethingremarkable here.

• Introduction – Richard Kearney and M. E. LittlejohnPart 1. Classic Philosophers on Film1. The Thought of Movies, Stanley Cavell2. On Cinema, Gilles DeleuzePart 2: Thinking on Films3. Film as Philosophy and Cinematic Thinking, Robert Sinnerbrink 4. Theory, Therapy and Classic Hollywood Movies, M.E. Littlejohn5. Missing Mothers/Desiring Daughters: Framing the Sight of Women, Naomi Scheman6. Why is ‘Leap Year’ not a Cavellian Comedy of Remarriage?, Stephen Mulhall7. 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 Deamer9. The Active Eye (Revisted): Toward a Phenomenology of Cinematic Movement, Vivian Sobchack10. Rethinking Monster Movies: Men In Black, Alien Resurrection and Apocalypse Now, Richard Kearney11. 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 RumpzaPart 3: Thinking with Films 14. On Wim Wender’s Paris, Texas, Richard Kearney15. On Larissa Shepitko’s The Ascent, Fanny Howe16. On Jim Jarmusch’s Paterson, Brian Treanor17. On Sidney Lumet’s Serpico, Sam B. Girgus18. On Antwone Fisher’s Antwone Fisher, Alberto G. Urquidez19. On Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Our Little Sister, Paul Freaney20. 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. Grefenstette22. On Luchino Visconti’s Death in Venice, Joseph S. O’Leary23. On Andrei Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev, Patrick Hederman24. On Krzysztof Kieslowski’s Double Life of Veronique, Joseph Kickasola25. On Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful 8, Matthew Clemente26. On Wes Anderson’s The Royal Tenenbaums, John Fardy27. On Persichetti, Ramsey, and Rothman’s Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse, Anne M. Carpenter28. On the Dardenne Brothers’ The Young Ahmed, Joel Mayward29. On John Huston’s The Dead, Magnus Ferguson 30. On Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life, Jason Wirth