New FILM-PHILOSOPHY!

Screenshot from Trois Couleurs: Rouge/Three Colors: Red (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1994) a film discussed by Eddy Troy in his article "Deleuze and Kieślowski: On the Cinema of Exhaustion"

Film Studies For Free returns to bring you glad tidings! There is a new issue of the excellent open-access journal  Film-Philosophy out now!! More soon from FSFF!

FILM-PHILOSOPHY, Vol 21, Issue 1 [2017]

FULL LINKED TABLE OF CONTENTS HERE

ARTICLES

• Cartesianism and Intersubjectivity in Paranormal Activity and the Philosophy of Mind by Steve Jones
• ‘Do I feel lucky?’: Moral Luck, Bluffing and the Ethics of Eastwood's Outlaw-Lawman in Coogan's Bluff and the Dirty Harry Films by Joel Deshaye
• Deleuze and Kieślowski: On the Cinema of Exhaustion by Eddy Troy
• A World in the Making: Contingency and Time in James Benning's BNSF by Samuel Adelaar
• Thrilling Objects: The Scales of Corruption in Political Thrillers by Brian Daniel Willems
• Nietzsche on Film by Mark Steven
• Stanley Cavell on the Magic of the Movies by Daniel Shaw

BOOK REVIEWS

• John Ó Maoilearca (2015) All Thoughts Are Equal: Laruelle and Nonhuman Philosophy, review by William Brown
• Daniel Varndell (2014) Hollywood Remakes, Deleuze and the Grandfather Paradox, review by María Victoria Gomez Vila
• Patricia White (2015) Women's Cinema, World Cinema: Projecting Contemporary Feminisms, review by Judith Rifeser
• Victor Fan (2015) Cinema Approaching Reality: Locating Chinese Film Theory, review by David H. Fleming
• Daniel Yacavone (2015) Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema, review by Seagate Chakravorty
• Response to Review of Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema by Seagate Chakravorty, by Daniel Yacavone

Film Philosophy Conference Keynote Presentations Online

A slide from the Film-Philosophy Conference keynote lecture by Francesco Casetti

Film Studies For Free can only marvel at, and be very thankful for, the efficiency and commitment to open access research and scholarship involved in the speedy publication online of five excellent keynote lectures from the very recent annual conference held by the Film-Philosophy journal earlier this month.

Below are links to four audio files and some slides from presentations, too. Thank you F-P!

The London Graduate School presents Film-Philosophy Conference 2012

Film-Philosophy continues to grow as an important discipline within the fields of both Film Studies and Philosophy. The Film-Philosophy Conference brought together scholars from all over the world to present their research on a broad range of topics within the subject area.

The 2012 conference took place on September 12-14, and was jointly hosted by King’s College London, Queen Mary, University of London and Kingston University.

Keynote Speakers:

• Bernard Stiegler (Goldsmiths, University of London; University of Technology of Compiègne) and Ken McMullen (Director of Ghost Dance) AUDIO HERE
• Francesco Casetti (Yale University) AUDIO HERE
• Damian Sutton (Middlesex University) AUDIO HERE
• Libby Saxton (Queen Mary, University of London) AUDIO HERE

New Film-Philosophy: Haneke, Rivette, Cassavetes, Deleuze, Badiou, Leigh, Bacon, Jarman, Buñuel and more

Frame capture from Happy-Go-Lucky (Mike Leigh, 2008). Read Basileios Kroustallis's take on this film as a thought-experiment

Film Studies For Free is delighted to relay the excellent news that another high-quality  issue of Film-Philosophy has just been published. Edited by David Sorfa, Graham Matthews, Matthew Holtmeier and Ben Tyrer, the issue boasts no fewer than thirteen great articles as well as dozens of book reviews. The former are listed in full and linked to below.

The next annual Film-Philosophy conference will take place in London in September 2012, and the full schedule has recently been published. You can find it here.

Film-Philosophy also has its very own Facebook page and Twitter account.


Film-Philosophy, Vol 16, No 1 (2012)

Articles

1. Interpreting Disturbed Minds: Donald Davidson and The White Ribbon PDF by James J Pearson
2. Haptic Aurality: Resonance, Listening and Michael Haneke PDF by Lisa Coulthard
3. To Describe a Labyrinth: Dialectics in Jacques Rivette’s Film Theory and Film Practice PDF by Douglas Morrey
4. The Subject Trapped in Gomorrah: Undecidability and Choice in Network Cinema PDF by Maria Poulaki
5. Film as Thought Experiment: A Happy-Go-Lucky Case? PDF by Basileios Kroustallis
6. Losing Face: Francis Bacon's 25th Hour PDF by Arne De Boever
7. Charm and Strangeness: The Aesthetic and Epistemic Dimensions of Derek Jarman’s Wittgenstein PDF by Kieran Anthony Cashell
8. Why He Really Doesn’t Get Her: Deleuze’s Whatever-Space and the Crisis of the Male Quest PDF by Niels Niessen
9. Groundhog Day and the Good Life PDF by Diana Abad
10. Remystifying Film: Aesthetics, Emotion and The Queen PDF by Stella Hockenhull
11. Contrapuntal Close-up: The Cinema of John Cassavetes and the Agitation of Sense PDF by Daniele Rugo
12. Of Bastard Man and Evil Woman, or, the Horror of Sex PDF by Lorenzo Chiesa
13. Perversity and Post-Marxian Thought in Buñuel’s Late Films PDF by Chad Trevitte

Book reviews