FILM AND PHILOSOPHY

Table of Contents to Volume 12 (now available)

Film’s Limits: The Sequel
Bruce Russell

Philosophy in the Moving Image: Response to Bruce Russell   Noël Carroll

What Else Films Can Do: A Response to Bruce Russell   Thomas E. Wartenberg

Replies to Carroll and Wartenberg
Bruce Russell

Smoke and the Practice of Philosophy
J. Heath Atchley

Hostel: A Nightmare of the Hyperreal
Ben Convey

Two Problematic Theses in Carroll’s Account of Horror
Brian Laetz

Cinema as Sacrifice: Borat and the Culture Industry
William Grundy

Self-Knowledge, Self-Deception, and Retaliation:
Lessons from The Limey and The Godfather
Sean McAleer

Do You Have a Light?: The Failures and Special Effects
of Godard’s Alphaville
Ramsey Eric Ramsey and Diane Gruber

Tedium, Aesthetic Form, and Moral Insight in Silverlake Life
Kayley Vernallis

Defining the Moving Image: A Response to Noël Carroll
Robert Yanal
 

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Joseph Kupfer on Bang the Drum Slowly

Thorsten Botz-Bornstein on Benjamin & Tarkovsky

Henry Bacon on a phenomenology of film narration

Dan Flory on the treatment of race in Deep Cover

William Pamerleau on film realism and narrative identity

Aaron Smuts on sexist humor and  In the Company of Men

Chris Venner on Lacanian evil and Mamet's Homicide

Avery Plaw on the historical distortions in Spielberg's Munich

Jeanette Bicknell on Orientalism and The Sheltering Sky

Richard Nunan on the gay perspective of Brokeback Mountain

Carole Lyn Piechota on Nietzsche and Eternal Sunshine

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Author Meets Critics: On Film (with thanks to Daniel Frampton, editor,Film-Philosophy Internet Salon and Journal, UK)

Is Film the Alien Other to Philosophy? — Nathan Andersen

Alien Ways of Thinking — Julian Baggini

Ways of Thinking: A Response to Andersen and Baggini — Stephen Mulhall

The Dilemma of Artificial Love in A.I.-Artificial Intelligence — Laura Werner

The Evolution of the Sci-Fi Genre — Temenuga Trifonova

A Common Ground Between Science and Religion: Contact & The Varieties of Religious Experience — Jonathan Hiers

Burgess, Kubrick and the Enlightenment Narrative of Progress — Alfred Drake

Kubrick Contra Nihilism: A Clockwork Orange — Dan Shaw

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 VOLUME 8 TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Desperate Education: Thoreau’s Walden and All That Heaven Allows  -David Justin Hodge

Self-Knowledge and Humility in Chariots of Fire  -Joseph Kupfer

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre and Environmental Virtue Ethics  -Sean McAleer

Scapegoating, the Holocaust and McCarthyism in Stalag 17  -Sander Lee

Disciplinary Power and Testimonial Narrative in Schindler’s List  -Eugene Arva

The Truth About False Witnesses in Decalogue 2 & 8  -Paul Santilli

Cinematic Philosophy in Le Feu follet: The Search for a Meaningful Life  -Herbert Granger

Cultural Change and Nihilism in the Rollerball Films  -John Marmysz

Nihilism and Noir  -Kevin Stoehr

The Logic of Noir and the Question of Radical Evil  -Bert Olivier

Looking Backward: Philosophy and Film Reconsidered  -Thomas Wartenberg

The Present State of the Philosophy of Film  -Ian Jarvie

Philosophy of Film, or Philosophies of Film?  -Deborah Knight

Empiricism and the Philosophy of Film  -Cynthia Freeland

Film Review: Fatalism in Fat City   -Dan Shaw

                             FILMS DISCUSSED IN VOL. 7

                                            David Brottman's "A Gnostic Matrix for the Masses"

                               Nathan Abrams: "...Memory, Identity and Self-Positioning in Total Recall"

"No Callous Shell"  The Fate of Selfhood from Walt Whitman to Todd Haynes    Anat Pick

Heideggerean Wonder in Terence Malick’s The Thin Red Line   Robert Clewis

Finding the Essential: A Phenomenological Look at Hal Hartley’s No Such Thing   Kevin Taylor Anderson

Sensible and Desperate Knaves in The Way Of the Gun      Ronald Lindsay

Cinema and the Aesthetics of the Dynamical Sublime: Kant, Deleuze, Heidegger and the Architecture of Film      Jerold J. Abrams

‘Are You Still You?’: Memory, Identity and Self-Positioning in Total Recall     Nathan Abrams

A Gnostic Matrix for the Masses: A Conspired Space Of Metaphysical Totality David Brottman

Life as Show Time: Aesthetic Images and Ideological Spectacles      Eugene Arva

PoMo Desire?: Authorship and Agency in Wim Wenders Wings of Desire  Nathan Wolfson

Book Review: Eighteen Woody Allen Films Analyzed     Dan Shaw

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CONTENTS: Film and Philosophy VOLUMES 5 AND 6/2000-2001

Articles

E. M. DADLEZ: Quasi-Fearing Fictions
BERT OLIVIER: Reason and/or Imagination: Peter Weir's Dead Poets Society
DEBORAH KNIGHT: Being Don Juan: Identity, Metafiction, and the Conflict of Desires
RICHARD GILMORE: Oedipus Techs: Time Travel as Redemption in The Terminator and 12 Monkeys 
CRAIG N. BACH: Nietzsche and The Big Sleep: Style, Women, and Truth
JOSEPH H. KUPFER: The Work of Love-At Work on Board The African Queen 
RICHARD GILMORE: Into the Toilet: Some Classical Aesthetic Themes Raised by a Scene in Trainspotting 
Symposium: Noël Carroll's Theorizing the Moving Image 
ALLAN CASEBIER: Noël Carroll's Theorizing the Moving Image
ALAN GOLDMAN: Specificity, Popularity, and Engagement in the Moving Image
NOEL CARROLL: Defending Theorizing: Responses to Casebier and Goldman
ALAN GOLDMAN: Response to Carroll
ALLAN CASEBIER: Response to Carroll
NOEL CARROLL: Defending Theorizing II: The Sequel
Symposium: Walter Benjamin and Mechanical Reproduction
JOSEPH MARGOLIS: Mechanical Reproduction and Cinematic Humanism
THOMAS E. WARTENBERG: Cinematic Humanism or Grand Theory? A Critique of Margolis
NOEL CARROLL: Margolis, Mechanical Reproduction, and Cinematic Humanism
Symposium: Noël Carroll's Interpreting the Moving Image 
DAN FLORY: Aesthetic Cognition and Visible Intelligibility
FLO LEIBOWITZ: Why Intention Matters: On Carroll and Film Interpretation
ANDREW LIGHT: Does the Audience Matter? On Carroll and Visual Argument
THOMAS E. WARTENBERG: Interpreting Films Philosophically
NOEL CARROLL: Interpreting the Moving Image: Replies to Commentators
Review Essay
BRIAN BUTLER: Transgression: Ordinary and Otherwise: Review of Thomas E. Wartenberg's Unlikely Couples: Movie Romance as Social Criticism

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