Thinking Film

Introduction - Richard Kearney and M. E. Littlejohn Part 1. Classic Philosophers on Film 1. The Thought of Movies, Stanley Cavell 2. On Cinema, Gilles Deleuze Part 2: Thinking on Films 3. Film as Philosophy and Cinematic Thinking, Robert Sinnerbrink 4. Theory, Therapy and Classic Hollywood Movies, M.E. Littlejohn 5. Missing Mothers/Desiring Daughters: Framing the Sight of Women, Naomi Scheman 6. Why is 'Leap Year' not a Cavellian Comedy of Remarriage?, Stephen Mulhall 7. Film and Television as Forms of Shared Experience, Sandra Laugier 8. What Does it Mean to Have A Cinematic Idea? Deleuze and Kurosawa's Stray Dog, David Deamer 9. The Active Eye (Revisted): Toward a Phenomenology of Cinematic Movement, Vivian Sobchack 10. Rethinking Monster Movies: Men In Black, Alien Resurrection and Apocalypse Now, Richard Kearney 11. A Plural Transcendence: When Film Does Phenomenology, Anna Westin 12. I Wake up Screaming: Kansas and Beyond, Anthony Steinbock 13. Mediating Fairy Stories in Words and Images: Warring Magics in J.R.R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings, Stephanie Rumpza Part 3: Thinking with Films 14. On Wim Wender's Paris, Texas, Richard Kearney 15. On Larissa Shepitko's The Ascent, Fanny Howe 16. On Jim Jarmusch's Paterson, Brian Treanor 17. On Sidney Lumet's Serpico, Sam B. Girgus 18. On Antwone Fisher's Antwone Fisher, Alberto G. Urquidez 19. On Hirokazu Kore-eda's Our Little Sister, Paul Freaney 20. On Lars Von Trier's The House that Jack Built, John Panteleimon Manoussakis 21. On Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest, J. E. Grefenstette 22. On Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice, Joseph S. O'Leary 23. On Andrei Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev, Patrick Hederman 24. On Krzysztof Kieslowski's Double Life of Veronique, Joseph Kickasola 25. On Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful 8, Matthew Clemente 26. On Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums, John Fardy 27. On Persichetti, Ramsey, and Rothman's Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse, Anne M.

Richard Kearney is Charles B. Seelig Professor of Philosophy at Boston College, USA. He is the author of over 20 books on European philosophy and literature (including two novels and a volume of poetry) and has edited or co-edited 14 more. Murray Littlejohn is Senior Instructor, Humanities and Languages, University of New Brunswick, Canada.