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FILM, THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY
FILM, THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY The Key Thinkers Edited by Felicity Colman
McGill-Queen's University Press Montreal & Kingston Ithaca
For Nia, who loves Jaws
63 Editorial matter and selection, Felicity Colman 2009.
Individual contributions, the contributors ISBN: 978-0-7735-3697-5 (bound) ISBN: 978-0-7735-3700-2 (pbk.) Legal deposit first quarter 2010 BibliothGque nationale du Qu4bec This book is copyright under the Berne Convention. No reproduction without permission. All rights reserved. Published simultaneously outside North America by Acumen Publishing Limited Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Film, theory and philosophy : the key thinkers / edited by Felicity Colman. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-7735-3697-5 (bound).--ISBN 978-0-7735-3700-2 (pbk.) 1.Motion pictures--Philosophy. 2. Philosophy in motion pictures. 3. Philosophy, European--20th century, 4. Philosophers--Europe--20th century. I. Colman, Felicity, 1967-
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CONTENTS
Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction: What is film-philosophy? Felicity Colman I WHAT IS CINEMA?
1. Hugo Miinsterberg Robert Sinnerbrink
2. Vil4m Flusser Adrian Martin 3. Siegfried Kracauer Drehli Robnik 4. Theodor Adorno Julie Kuhlken
5. Antonin Artaud Anna Powell 6. Henri Bergson Dorothea Olkowski 7. Maurice Merleau-Ponty Helen A. Fielding 8. Emmanuel Levinas Sarah Cooper
9. Andr6 Bazin Hunter Vaughan 10. Roland Barthes Colin Gardner II POLITICS OF THE CINEMATIC CENTURY
11. Serge Daney Garin Dowd
12. Jean-Luc Godard Zsuzsa Baross 13. Stanley Cave11 Rex Butler
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14. Jean-Luc Nancy Claire Colebrook
15. Jacques Derrida Louise Burchill 16. Gilles Deleuze John Mullarkey 17. Sarah Kofman Tom Conley
18. Paul Virilio Felicity Colrnan 19. Jean Baudrillard Catherine Constable
20. Jean-FranqoisLyotard Lisa Trahair 21. Fredric Jameson Scott Durham 22. Fklix Guattari Gary Genosko Ill CINEMATIC NATURE
23. Raymond Bellour Michael Goddard 24. Christian Metz Richard Rushton 25. Julia Kristeva Patricia MacCormack 26. Laura Mulvey David Sorfa 27. Homi I