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Poetic Objects: Bachelardian Reverie, Reverberation and Repose in Claire Denis' 35 Shots of Rum
Film-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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Film-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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Film-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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Film-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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Donald Draper filosofo della nostalgia = Donald Draper as a Philosopher of Nostalgia
H-ermes: Journal of Communication, 2016 Donald Draper as a Philosopher of Nostalgia. In contemporary media studies, the TV series Mad Men has been analyzed as an example of a nostalgic attitude towards a past era. In this paper, I will proceed the other way round.
Enrico Terrone
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Every Wholly Other: Postsecular Pluralism in Isabel Rocamora's Faith
Film-PhilosophyIn this article, I undertake a close reading of Isabel Rocamora's 2015 film installation Faith, which shows, on three separate screens, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim men simultaneously performing their morning prayers in three distinct, historically ...
Mark Cauchi
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Is It a Wonderful Life? Frank Capra and Objective List Theories of Worth
Film-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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A New/Old Ontology of Film [PDF]
, 2013 The purpose of this article is to examine the ontological effects of digital technology, and determine whether digital films, traditional films, and pretraditional motion pictures belong to the same category.
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PhilosophiesThis article examines some work by the Oaxaca-based Mexican experimental filmmaker and video artist Bruno Varela in order to explore the sense of Gilles Deleuze’s view that modern political cinema is characterized by a “missing” people, to which the ...
Byron Davies
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Film-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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