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Deleuze, Concepts, and Ideas about Film as Philosophy: A Critical and Speculative Re-Examination [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of French and Francophone Philosophy, 2018
This article explores the idea of film as a possible means for articulating original philosophical concepts, in Gilles Deleuze’s sense of concepts. The first of two parts, critically re-examines current ideas about film as philosophy in relation to ...
Jakob Nilsson
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The politics of gift-giving and the provocation of Lars Von Trier's Dogville [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
In what follows, I wish to use the circumstances and dynamics of the nocturnal scene of destruction at the Old Mill and the subsequent scene of carnage at the house of Chuck and Vera in Dogville as a springboard for developing some reflections on the ...
Nobus, DM
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What is Film-Philosophy?

open access: yes, 2010
A discussion of the differences between film-philosophy and film ...
Martin-Jones, David   +4 more
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Poetic Objects: Bachelardian Reverie, Reverberation and Repose in Claire Denis' 35 Shots of Rum

open access: yesFilm-Philosophy, 2023
This article draws on the interrelated concepts of reverie and repose in Gaston Bachelard's philosophy to approach Claire Denis' poetic foregrounding of objects in 35 Shots of Rum (35 Rhums, 2008). Connecting Bachelard's work on time to his later studies
Saige Walton
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Affective Assemblages of Material Culture: Qi Pao, Mahjong and Performance in Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution

open access: yesFilm-Philosophy, 2023
Using Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution (2007), this article illustrates how an affective mode of address is encouraged when one attends to the ways in which on-screen cinematic audio-visual spectacles are produced through the interaction of different bodies on ...
Jiaying Sim
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Rethinking Inside and Outside: The Door in Ernst Lubitsch's When I Was Dead and Charlie Chaplin's The Adventurer

open access: yesFilm-Philosophy, 2023
The article investigates the function and signification of doors in two silent films, Ernst Lubitsch's 1916 When I Was Dead and Charlie Chaplin's 1917 The Adventurer. Taking a theoretical perspective provided by the field of intellectual inquiry known as
Ido Lewit
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Freedom and the Weight of the Crown: Sartrean and Beauvoirian Existentialism in Peter Morgan's The Crown

open access: yesFilm-Philosophy, 2023
In this article, I examine Peter Morgan's TV series The Crown (2016–present) through the lens of Sartrean and Beauvoirian existentialism. I argue that the character of Queen Elizabeth II holds a special place in the royal family, as the monarch who ...
Gabrielle Pozzo di Borgo
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Is It a Wonderful Life? Frank Capra and Objective List Theories of Worth

open access: yesFilm-Philosophy, 2023
Aaron Smuts argues that the holiday film It's a Wonderful Life should be understood as both an illustration and a cinematic vindication of objective list theories of worth.
Joshua Shaw
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The Availability of Jim Jarmusch’s Film-Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Derrida and Private Language in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

open access: yesFilm-Philosophy, 2022
To date, film scholars have found the films of Jim Jarmusch to be tantamount to works of postmodern philosophy. For as intriguing and productive as such interpretations of Jarmusch’s films have been, I submit that the postmodern framework occludes a ...
Kyle Barrowman
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David Lynch, Embodiment and Mediality: Dealing With a Human Form

open access: yesFilm-Philosophy, 2022
This article considers the role of disembodiment in the visual art and films of David Lynch. This line of inquiry, I argue, allows us to consider the ways scholars do and do not conceptualise the relationship between Lynch’s works of different mediums ...
Benedict Welch
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