Feelings are Facts: A Life
Yvonne Rainer, Feelings are Facts: A Life. MIT Press, 2006. ISBN: 0 262 18251 3 US$37.95 (hb) 504pp (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) Feelings are Facts gives all the usual…
Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow
Stanley Cavell, Philosophy the Day After Tomorrow. Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Harvard University Press, 2005. ISBN: 0 674 01704 8 (hb) 328pp US$27.95 (Review copy supplied by Harvard University…
Technics and Time, 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise, Bernard Stiegler
Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time, 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise Stanford University Press, 2010 ISBN: 9 780 804761 680 US$27.95 (pb) 280pp (Review copy supplied by Stanford…
Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir
Irving Singer, Three Philosophical Filmmakers: Hitchcock, Welles, Renoir. Cambridge, Massachusetts & London, England: The MIT Press, 2004. ISBN: 0 262 19501 1279 pp US$32.95 (hb) (Review copy supplied by MIT…
Film After Film: Or, What Became of 21st-Century Cinema?
J. Hoberman, Film After Film: Or, What Became of 21st-Century Cinema? Brooklyn, NY: Verso, 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1844677511 US$34.95 (hb) 304pp Review copy supplied by Verso Long-time (but now former) Village Voice…
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Geoff Andrew, 10. London: BFI Publishing, 2005. ISBN: 1 844 57069 X 88pp £9.99 (pb) (Review copy supplied by BFI publications) Few films seem as wholeheartedly concerned with "America", in…
Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on His Creativity
Irving Singer, Ingmar Bergman, Cinematic Philosopher: Reflections on His Creativity. MIT Press, 2007 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-19563-8 US$24.95 (hb) 240pp Irving Singer, Cinematic Mythmaking: Philosophy in Film. MIT Press, 2008 ISBN-13: 978-0-262-19589-8…
Moving Images of the Anthropocene: Rethinking Cinema Beyond Anthropology
Introduction: On Cinematic and Anthropocenic Dreams How to think about cinema in a way that truly takes the measure of what this celluloidal gathering of collectable and projectable light has…
Profanations
Giorgio Agamben, Profanations (Translated by Jeff Fort). New York: Zone Books, 2007. ISBN-13: 978-1-890951-82-5 US$25.95 (hb) 100pp (Review copy supplied by MIT Press) Philosophy adopts the task, usually as the task par…