European Film Theory [Paperback]

European Film Theoryexplores the Europeanness of European film theory, its philosophical origins, the culture wars between Continental and Analytical film theory and philosophy, the major discursive and epistemological shifts in the history of Continental film theory, the relationship between Continental philosophy of art and philosophy of history and European film theory. Writing from a range of disciplines and perspectives, the contributors to this new volume in the AFI FILM READERS series offer fresh interpretations of European film theorists and illuminate the political potential of European film theory.

Introduction: That Perpetually Obscure Object of Theory

Part One: European Film Theory

1. European Film Theory: From Crypto-Nationalism to Trans-Nationalism, Paul Coates

2. The Aesthetics of Race in European Film Theory, Tobias Nagl

3. The Disunity of Film Theory and the Disunity of Aesthetics, Casey Haskins

4. Real Location, Fantasy Space, Performative Place: Double Occupancy and Mutual Interference in European Cinema, Thomas Elsaesser

Part Two: Film and Philosophy

5. Film as Philosophy: A Mission Impossible?, John Mullarkey

6. Platonic Reconstruction and Residual Kantianism in Film Theory, Colin Burnett

7. Epstein, Bergson, and Vision, Malcolm Turvey

8. Heidegger and Cinema, Brian Price

9. Listening and Touching, Looking and Thinking: The Dialogue in Philosophy and Film between Jean-Luc Nancy and Claire Denis, Douglas Morrey

Part Three: Politics, History, Ideology and Film Theory

10. Fabulation and Contradiction: Jacques Ranciere on Cinema, <ls$