Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Philosophy of Film (PhF)

This academic year there will be a new edition of the Philosophy of Film reading group, a joint venture of LOGOS, Valencia Philosophy Lab and the Aesthetic and Theory of Arts Murcia group.
It will be held online usually on the third Friday every month from 17:00 to 19:00 CET. We discuss a film and a paper on it.



Convenor:

Manuel García-Carpintero

Sessions

  • Bergman, Wild Strawberries

    Harvey R. Greenberg, "The Rags of Time" (1970)

    14 October 2022

    17:00, Online

  • Brakhage, Wedlock House: An Intercourse, and other short films

    Rebecca Sheehan,  "Stan Brakhage, Ludwig Wittgenstein and the renewed encounter with the everyday" (2012)

    18 November 2022

    17:00, Online

  • Sirk, All That Heaven Allows

    Andrew Klevan, Aesthetic Evaluation and Film (2018), §3.3

    16 December 2022

    17:00, Online

  • Ray, In a Lonely Place

    Robert Pippin, Filmed Thought (2020), chapter 8, "Passive & Active Skepticism in Nicholas Ray’s In a Lonely Place"

    20 January 2023

    17:19, Online

  • Rocha, Deus e o Diabo na Terra do Sol

    • Ivana Bentes, "Politics and Aesthetics of Myth in Black God, White Devil" (2000)
    • Ismail Xavier, Allegories of Underdevelopment ch. 1 (1997)

    24 February 2023

    17:00, Online

  • Kotcheff, Wake in Fright

    • Melissa Boyde, "Mining animal death for all it’s worth", in Jay Johnston and Fiona Probyn-Rapsey (eds.) Animal Death (2013)
    • John Docker, "Epistemological vertigo and allegory: thoughts on massacres, actual, surrogate, and averted – Beersheba, Wake in Fright, Australia", in Passionate Histories: Myth, Memory and Indigenous Australia (2010)

    24 March 2023

    17:00, Online

  • Field, Tár

    Richard Brody, Anthony Lane, New Yorker reviews, 2022

    21 April 2023

    17:00, Online

  • Haneke, Caché

    • Catherine Wheatley, Michael Haneke's Cinema. The Ethic of the Image (2009), chapter 5, "Shame and Guilt: Caché"
    • Thomas Y. Levin, "Five Tapes, Four Halls, Two Dreams: Vicissitudes of Surveillant Narration in Michael Haneke’s Caché", in Roy Grundmann (ed.), A Companion To Michael Haneke (2010).

    19 May 2023

    17:00, Online

  • Lynch, Lost Highway

    • Todd McGowan, "Finding Ourselves on a Lost Highway: David Lynch's Lesson in Fantasy", Cinema Journal 43, No. 2 (2004), 67-89
    • Warren Buckland, "Making Sense of Lost Highway", in Puzzle Films - Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema, ed. Warren Buckland, Wiley-Blackwell  2009

    14 July 2023

    17:00, Online