Volume 11, Issue No. 1, 2007
The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou

Edited by Richard Stamp

Articles

Reading the Dialectical Ontology of The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou Against the Ontological Monism of Adaptation (1 – 32)
Kirk Boyle

Kuhle Wampe: Politics of Montage, De-montage of Politics? (33 - 48)
Gal Kirn

Hitchcock and Hume Revisited: Fear, Confusion and Stage Fright ( 49 - 60)
John Orr

Book Reviews

Review: Seeing Ecology and Seeing as Ecology: On Brereton’s Hollywood Utopia and the Andersons' Moving Image Theory (61 - 69)
Brian E. Butler

Review: Luc Dardenne, Au dos de nos images (1991-2005), suivi de Le Fils et L’Enfant par Jean-Pierre et Luc Dardenne (70 - 74)
Joseph Mai




Volume 11, Issue No. 2, 2007
Nosferatu Still


Special Issue
The Occluded Relation: Levinas and Cinema

Edited by Sarah Cooper

Introduction (i-vii)
Sarah Cooper

Articles

Fragile Faces: Levinas and Lanzmann (1-14)
Libby Saxton

The Frozen Screen: Levinas and the Action Film (15-36)
Reni Celeste

Levinas, Nosferatu, and the Love as Strong as Death (37-48)
Colin Davis

Re-viewing the Sexual Relation: Levinas and Film (49-65)
Lisa Downing

Mortal Ethics: Reading Levinas with the Dardenne Brothers (66-87)
Sarah Cooper

Beyond Ontology: Levinas and the Ethical Frame in Film (88-107)
Sam B. Girgus

To be or not to be is not the question – On Beckett’s Film (108-121)
Simon Critchley

Tarkovsky and Levinas: Cuts, Mirrors, Triangulations (122-143)
Dominic Michael Rainsford





Volume 11, Issue No.3, 2007
Grizzly Man


Special Issue
Encore: Lacan and Film

Edited by Benjamin Noys

Introduction: One More Effort... (i-vi)
Benjamin Noys

Articles

What is the Gift of Grace?: on Dogville (1-22)
Lorenzo Chiesa

The Politics of Gift-Giving and the Provocation of Lars Von Trier's Dogville (23-37)
Dany Nobus

Antiphusis: Werner Herzog's Grizzly Man (38-51)
Benjamin Noys

The Temporality of the Real: The Path to Politics in The Constant Gardener (52-73)
Todd McGowan

'How Very Lacanian': From Fantasy to Hyperreality in Basic Instinct 2 (74-85)
Mark Fisher

Book Review

Review: Andrea Sabbadini (ed.) (2003) The Couch and the Silver Screen: Psychoanalytic Reflections on European Cinema (86-93)
Benedicte Coste


Bumper Review Round-up 2007


Franju

Review: Fantasies of the Institution: The Films of Georges Franju and Kate Ince’s Georges Franju (94-102)
Michael du Plessis

Reply to Michael du Plessis (103-107)
Kate Ince

NYFF 2007

Anxiety: New York Film Festival Report (Part One) (108-117)
Martha P. Nochimson

Affirmation? New York Film Festival Report (Part Two) (118-131)
Martha P. Nochimson

Film and Philosophy

Review: Christopher Falzon (2007) Philosophy Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Philosophy (Second Edition) (132-137)
Lucy Bolton

If a Film Did Philosophy We Wouldn’t Understand It
Review: Rupert Read and Jerry Goodenough (eds.) (2005) Film as Philosophy: Essays on Cinema After Wittgenstein and Cavell (138-146)
Daniel Barnett

Mundane Hybrids: Rancière Against the Sublime Image
Review: Jacques Rancière (2007) The Future of the Image (147-157)
Ted Kafala

Not What It Says on the Tin
Review: Ian Aitken (2006) Realist Film Theory and Cinema: The Nineteenth-century Lukácsian and Intuitionist Realist Traditions (158-168)
Nigel Morris

Philosophy

Adorno Damned by a Devotee?
Review: Alastair Morgan (2007) Adorno’s Concept of Life (169-176)
Nicholas Joll

Film

Review: Mark Shiel (2006) Italian Neorealism: Rebuilding the Cinematic City (177-183)
Costica Bradatan

Review: Suzanne Buchan (ed.) (2006) Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol.1.1 (184-190)
Tim Maloney

Review: Robin Curtis (2006) Conscientious Viscerality: The Autobiographical Stance in German Film and Video (191-197)
Maria Walsh

Filmmakers

L’Atalante Lost and Regained
Review: Michael Temple (2006) Jean Vigo (French Film Directors) (198-203)
Michael Abecassis

Grader of the Lost Sharks: Warren Buckland Considers Spielberg’s Overlooked ‘Monster’ Movies
Review: Warren Buckland (2006) Directed by Steve Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster (204-213)
William Brown

Review: Joe McElhaney (2006) The Death of Classical Cinema: Hitchcock, Lang, Minnelli (214-223)
Lucy Fife

Review: Jerold J. Abrams (ed.) (2007) The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick (224-230)
Philippe Mather

Review: Mark T. Conard (ed.) (2007) The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese (231-237)
Linda Petříková

Hitchcock, Hume, and the Matrix of Modern Cinema
Review: John Orr (2005) Hitchcock and Twentieth-Century Cinema (238-246)
David Sterritt

André Téchiné: The Subtle Exploration of Identities
Review: Bill Marshall (2007) André Téchiné (247-253)
Isabelle Vanderschelden

Review: Colin Odell and Michelle Le Blanc (2007) David Lynch (254-259)
Liani van Straaten

Review: Richard Taylor (ed.) (2006) Vsevolod Pudovkin: Selected Essays (260-268)
Giuliano Vivaldi