About Film-Philosophy

Founded in November 1996, Film-Philosophy is an international academic journal dedicated to philosophically reviewing film studies, philosophical aesthetics, and world cinema. The email salon encourages discussion of related topics. The journal is published three times per year and is fully peer-reviewed.

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Vol. 9 nos 1-5, January 2005
Issue on Film Theory

no. 1: Rebecca Bell-Metereau, Movie-made Memories, on Memory and Popular Film, edited by Paul Grainge.
no. 2: Matt Lee, 'No Theory' Theory, Anti-theory, and the Arts, on Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts, edited by Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey.
no. 3: Patrick ffrench, Potential Not To Be
no. 4: Peter Caws, Theory as Criticism
no. 5: Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit, A Response to Patrick ffrench and Peter Caws
Two review-articles on Leo Bersani and Ulysse Dutoit's Forms of Being: Cinema, Aesthetics, Subjectivity, and a response by the authors.
 

Vol. 9 nos 6-11, February 2005
Special Issue on Wilhelm S. Wurzer

no. 6: Imre Szeman, Film Beyond Metaphysics
no. 7: Martin Donougho, Rethinking Cinema as Philosophy
no. 8: Fabienne-Sophie Chauderlot, Filming as the Art of Thinking
no. 9: Steve Choe, The Film Theory to Come
no. 10: Jakob Hesler, Filming Without Film
no. 11: Wilhelm S. Wurzer, Filming (In) Futures, a response to the five review-articles in Film-Philosophy's Special Issue.
 

Vol. 9 nos 12-18, March 2005
Issue on World Cinema

no. 12: Antonio Traverso, Unsettled Screens, on The Cinema of Latin America, edited by Alberto Elena and Marina Díaz López.
no. 13: Florence Martin, Passage to 'Franco-Asia', on East-West Encounters: Franco-Asian Cinema and Literature by Sylvie Blum-Reid.
no. 14: Sylvie Blum-Reid, The Passeuse?, a response to Florence Martin's review.
no. 15: Amresh Sinha, Same Old New German Cinema, on Julia Knight's New German Cinema: Images of a Generation.
no. 16: Peter Brunette, Nowell-Smith Meets Visconti, Redux: The Old and the New, on the 3rd edition of Geoffrey Nowell-Smith's Luchino Visconti.
no. 17: Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, 'It Ain't Me Babe', a response to Brunette's review.
no. 18: Benjamin A. Schneider, The Sight and Sound of Music, on Wendy Everett's Terrence Davies.
 

Vol. 9 nos 19-22, April 2005
General Issue

no. 19: Marshall Deutelbaum, Studying Early Film History.
no. 20: Richard Schellhammer, An Early Cinema Textbook.
Two review-articles on Simon Popple and Joe Kember's Early Cinema: From Factory Gate to Dream Factory.
no. 21: Kenneth MacKinnon, The Trouble with The Trouble with Men, on the book about 'Masculinities in European and Hollywood Cinema', editied by Phil Powrie, Ann Davies, and Bruce Babington.
no. 22: Michael Abecassis, In Search of Lost Children in Cinema and Western Society, on Emma Wilson's Cinema's Missing Children.
 

Vol. 9 Nos 23-31, May 2005
Gigantic Visions of Mankind
Special Issue on Spectacular Effects and Digital Cinema

no. 23: Marina Sheppard, Hollywood Business, on Robert Blanchet's Blockbuster: Aesthetik, Oekonomie und Geschichte des Postklassischen Hollywoodkinos.
no. 24: Jacobia Dahm, Lollywood Adventures, on Robert Blanchet's Blockbuster: Aesthetik, Oekonomie und Geschichte des Postklassischen Hollywoodkinos.
no. 25: Jon Baldwin, Have You Taken Your Rorschach Test?, on The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real, edited by William Irwin.
no. 26: Daniel Herbert, An Economy of Annihilation, on Wheeler Winston Dixon's Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Culture.
no. 27: Karin Badt, Apocalypse Too Soon, on Wheeler Winston Dixon's Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Culture.
no. 28: Mary Helen Kolisnyk, Between the Carnival and the Panopticon, on Scott Bukatman's Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century.
no. 29: Richard Misek, Analogue Film, Digital Discourse, on Sean Cubitt’s The Cinema Effect.
no. 30: Sean Cubitt, Reply to Richard Misek.
no. 31: Mark Bould, If This Retrofuturistic Flu Goes On . . ., on Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after Film, edited by Jeffrey Shaw and Peter Weibel.
 

Vol. 9 Nos 32-33, June 2005
Issue on World Cinema

no. 32: Elena del Rio, Antonioni's Blowup: Freeing the Imaginary from Metaphysical Ground.
no. 33: John Bleasdale, Please Make More Films, on The Cinema of Terrence Malick: Poetic Visions of America, edited by Hannah Patterson.
no. 34: Robert Sinnerbrink, Cinematic Ideas, on David Lynch's 2001 film Mulholland Drive.
no. 35: Ed Keller, The Reinvention of Self and World, on Aleksandar Dundjerovic's The Cinema of Robert Lepage: The Poetics of Memory.
 

Vol. 9 Nos 36-43, July 2005
French Film-PhilosophersSpecial Issue on Bresson, Resnais, Carax

no. 36: Robert W. Davis Jr, Cunneen's Bresson, on Joseph Cunneen's Robert Bresson: A Spiritual Style in Film.
no. 37: Joseph Cunneen, Reply to Davis.
no. 38: Reni Celeste, Love and Catastrophe: Filming the Sublime in Hiroshima Mon Amour.
no. 39: Jeremy J. Shapiro, Still Searching for Lost Time, on Jean-Louis Leutrat's BFI Film Classics book on Resnais's L'Annee derniere a Marienbad.
no. 40: Jean-Louis Leutrat, Response to Shapiro, trans. Douglas Morrey.
no. 41: Greg Hainge, Carax and the Ambiguities -- A Book That Needs To Fail, Perhaps, two review-articles on Fergus Daly and Garin Dowd's Leos Carax.
no. 42: Isabelle Vanderschelden, Carax -- Philosophy in Film.
no. 43: Garin Dowd, Carax and Deleuze -- Shuffling the Decks, a short reply to Hainge's review.
 

Vol. 9 Nos 44-45, November 2005
Issue on the New York Film Festival

no. 44: Martha P. Nochimson, Movies and the America of the Mind, part one of a two-part report on the 43rd New York Film Festival, 2005.
no. 45: Martha P. Nochimson, Five International Cinematic Perspectives on the 'Nature' of Love and Childhood, part two of a report on the 43rd New York Film Festival, 2005.
 

Vol. 9 nos 46-50, December 2005
Issue on Analytical Film Philosophy

no. 46: Andrew Court, The Measure of Cinema?, on Per Persson's Understanding Cinema: A Psychological Theory of Moving Imagery.
no. 47: Susan French Overstreet, Irving Singer's Reality Revisited, on his 2004 book Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles and Renoir.
no. 48: Thomas Wartenberg, Style and Methodologies, on Noel Carroll's Engaging the Moving Image.
no. 49: Michael Grant, Cities of Words, Cities of Cinema, on Stanley Cavell's City of Words: Pedagogical Letters on a Register of the Moral Life.
no. 50: Stanley Cavell, Reply to Grant.