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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.

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Author:   Kamil Lipiński ,  Andrzej Marzec
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   411
Weight:   0.643kg
ISBN:  

9789004729179

ISBN 10:   9004729178
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   02 October 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

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

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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).

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