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.

Books received and available for review are listed here.

If you are interested in reviewing one of these books, please send an email to reviews@film-philosophy.com, including a short biography and your postal address.

Reviews should be between 1000 and 3000 words long and should be submitted within 6 weeks of receipt of the book. See the submission guidelines section for further information.

If you are an author or publisher and wish your book to be reviewed in Film-Philosophy, please send a copy to the Managing Editor.

BOOKS RECEIVED:

Andriopolous, Stefan (2008) Possessed: Hypnotic Crimes, Corporate Fiction, and the Invention of Cinema. Trans. Peter Jansen and Stefan Andriopolous. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

Asibong, Andrew (2008) François Ozon. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press.

Barnett, Daniel (2008) Movement as Meaning in Experimental Film. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi.

Ebert, ROGER (2008) Scorsese by Ebert. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.

Flory, Dan (2008) Philosophy, Black Film, Film Noir. Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press.

Gillett, Philip (2008) Movie Greats: A Critical Study of Classic Cinema. Oxford and New York: Berg

McRoy, Jay (2008) Nightmare Japan: Contemporary Japanese Horror Cinema. Amsterdam and New York: Rodopi.

Morrison, David E., Matthew Kieran, Michael Svannevig and Sarah Ventress (2007) Media & Values: Intimate Transgressions in a Changing Moral and Cultural Landscape. Intellect: Bristol and Chicago.

Nessel, Sabine, Winfried Pauleit, Christine Rüffert, Karl-Heinz Schmid and Alfred Tews (eds.) (2008) Wort und Fleisch: Kino zwischen Text und Körper / Word and Flesh: Cinema Between Text and the Body. incl. English version on CD. Bertz & Fischer: Berlin.

Torlasco, Domietta (2008) The Time of the Crime: Phenomenology, Psychoanalysis, Italian Film. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press.

Walters, James (2008) Alternative Worlds in Hollywood Cinema. Bristol and Chicago: Intellect.

Wollen, Peter (1993/2008) Raiding the Icebox: Reflections on Twentieth Century Culture. London and New York: Verso.

FILMS RECEIVED:

Cox, Jennifer (2006) Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman. Artistic License Films. Denmark/USA. TV Mini-Series. 353 mins (DVD).

Russo-Young, Ry (2005) Marion, USA, 7 mins.

Hilliard, Justin D. (2006) Wednesday, Striped Socks Productions, 123 mins (NTSC DVD).