Derrida and Film Studies views Jacques Derridas 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 Derridas 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.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Kamil Lipiski
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 Cinemas Spectral Images: Time, Repetition, and Belief
Susana Viegas
4 Infinite Responsibilities of The Grandmaster: Ip Man, Derrida, and Beyond
Ian Fong
5 Vive les Fantōmes! or the Hauntology of Cinematic Image
Miosz 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 Derridas Hieroglyphic Writing in a Palimpsestic Case Study
Kamil Lipiski
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 Derridas Cinema
Cillian Ó Fathaigh
15 The (Im)possibility of Friendship in Fassbinders Fox and His Friends: A
Derridean Critique
Amresh Sinha
16 Cinema of Walten: Alterity and Worldhood in Lucrecia Martels The Headless
Woman
Ahmet Yuce
Index
Kamil Lipiski, Ph.D., is an assistant at the Contemporary Art Gallery Garbary 48. He has published a monograph entitled Mapowanie obrazu. Midzy estetyczn teori a praktyk (Image Mapping. Between Aesthetic Theory and Practice, 2022) and various articles on audiovisual culture, philosophy, and postcolonial studies.
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 Antropocie. Filozofia i estetyka po kocu wiata (Antroposhade. Philosophy and Aesthetics after the End of the World, 2021).
