Derrida and Film Studies

Kamil Lipiński, Andrzej Marzec (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

312 Seiten

2025
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-72917-9 (ISBN)

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Bringing together audiovisual culture and deconstruction, these essays explore the spectral turn of cinema as they examine the hieroglyphics of writing and difference as a field for new interpretations and offer new insights into cinema's audial dimension.

Derrida and Film Studies views Jacques Derrida’s in-depth and meandering ideas within the realm of film. Bringing together audiovisual culture and deconstruction, the book explores the spectral turn of cinema. Seeing the phenomenon of film as impacted by deconstruction and poststructuralism, the essays offer a wide spectrum of perspectives and illustrate the reception of Derrida’s thought for a new generation of philosophers of film. Using both well-known and pioneering methodologies, this rich volume is an essential guide for understanding the importance of spectrality, hieroglyphics, writing and difference, and alterity in film.

Kamil Lipiński, Ph.D. in Philosophy, is an Assistant at the Contemporary Art Gallery Garbary 48. Alma Mater – Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (two degrees in Philosophy and Cultural Studies). His numerous publications include Mapowanie obrazu. Między estetyczną teorią a praktyką (Image mapping. Between Aesthetic Theory and Practice, 2022) and “French Cultural Theory: Contexts and Applications” in Sensus Historiae (Ed., 2015–2016). He was a runner-up in the 2019 Postgraduate Essay Prize awarded by the Postcolonial Studies Association/Journal of Postcolonial Writing. Andrzej Marzec, Ph.D., Adam Mickiewicz University, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy. He has published monographs and articles on contemporary philosophy including Antropocień. Filozofia i estetyka po końcu świata (Antroposhade. Philosophy and Aesthetics after the End of the World, 2021).

Contents

Acknowledgements

List of Figures

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

Kamil Lipiński

PART 1

Derrida and the Variety of Specters – Cinema as the Haunted House

1 Jacques Derrida and Cinema as a Work of Mourning Charon

Raoul Kirchmayr

2 To Speak of Mourning or of Anything Else: The Historical Muslim Courtesan Film as a Work of Art at/of Mourning

Tirna Chatterjee and Prateek Rawat

3 Derrida on Cinema’s Spectral Images: Time, Repetition, and Belief

Susana Viegas

4 Infinite Responsibilities of The Grandmaster: Ip Man, Derrida, and Beyond

Ian Fong

5 “Vive les Fantômes!” or the Hauntology of Cinematic Image

Miłosz Stelmach

6 Derrida, the Specters of Marx and the End of History: The Presence of the Ghost in Angelopoulos’ film Ulysses’ Gaze (1995)

Nikolaos Sarafianos

PART 2

“Hieroglyphics” of Cinema: Interpreting the Writing and Différance

7 The Post Card as a Journey of Being: Destinerrance and Film Interpretation

Davide Persico

8 Stupidity in The Idiots and Au Hazard Balthazar: Derrida on the Limits of Reason

Yonathan Listik

9 Derrida’s “Hieroglyphic” Writing in a Palimpsestic Case Study

Kamil Lipiński

PART 3

Voice and Phenomenon: Tracing Speech and Sound

10 QWhat Is Reading? Absence and Presence in Silent Dialogue Intertitles

Tomer Nechushtan

11 Asonority: Derrida in Film Sound Theory

Arzu Karaduman

12 From the Oral Tradition to the Digital Text: Cinematic Différance in Dislocation Blues

Jack Rutherford

PART 4

Politics of Friendship: Ethics, Hospitality and the Other Question

13 The Experience of Cinema as an Experience of Ethics in Derrida

Mariana Almeida Pereira

14 ‘Community of Vision’: Politics and Collectivity in Derrida’s Cinema

Cillian Ó Fathaigh

15 The (Im)possibility of Friendship in Fassbinder’s Fox and His Friends: A Derridean Critique

Amresh Sinha

16 Cinema of Walten: Alterity and Worldhood in Lucrecia Martel’s The Headless Woman

Ahmet Yuce

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	Philosophy of Film ; 411
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	643 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	90-04-72917-8 / 9004729178
ISBN-13	978-90-04-72917-9 / 9789004729179
Zustand	Neuware