This is a reading group of the project New Paths in the Philosophy of Hybrid Representations. It is a collaborative activity with the VLC Philosophy Lab (co-convenor: Josep Corbí) and the Aresmur groups. It meets once per month to discuss a film and some relevant literature on it, when available.
Unless otherwise indicated, we meet on Fridays, 17:00-19:00 (local time) online via zoom.
SESSIONS:
- 1st Session, 26/9/25: Rohmer, L’Amour l’après-midi (1972)
- Jacob Leigh, The Cinema of Eric Rohmer. Irony, Imagination, and the Social World, Continuum, New York 2012, pp. 51-61
- Vittorio Hösle, Eric Rohmer, Filmaker and Philosopher, Bloomsbury, London 2016, pp. 38-43
- 3rd Session, 16/1/26: Wong, 2046 (2004)
- Stephen Teo, 2046: A Matter of Time, a Labour of Love, Senses of Cinema, 35, April 2005
- Todd McGowan, “Timeless in Space: Placing Eternity in 2046”, in his Out of Time. Desire in Atemporal Cinema, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis 2011, pp. 157-180
- Jean-Yves Heurtebise, 2013: “About the Conditions of Possibility of the Philosophical Analysis of Films: A Kierkegaardian, Girardian, and Deleuzian Reading of In the Mood for Love”, Revista Portuguesa de Filosofia vol. 69, 3/4, 451-469
- 4th Session, 20/2/26: von Trier, The Five Obstructions (2003)
- Mette Hjort, 2009: “The Five Obstructions”, in P. Livingston & C. Plantinga (eds.) The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film, London: Routledge, 652–661
- Trevor Ponech, 2008: “Work and Play”, in M. Hjort (ed.), Dekalog 1: On The Five Obstructions, London: Wallflower Press, 76-94
- Sverre Raffnsøe, 2013: “The Five Obstructions: Experiencing the Human Side of Enterprise”, ephemera vol. 11 (2), 178-190
- 5th Session, 10/4/26: Mouret, Trois Amies (2024)
- 6th Session, 8/5/26: Godard, Le Mépris (1963)
- Michelle Mason, 2003: “Contempt as a Moral Attitude”, Ethics 113, 234–272, esp. §2, 236-238
- Paul Coates, 1998: “Le Mépris: Women, Statues, Gods”, Film Criticism 22(3), 38-50
- Roberto Donati, 2009: “Le Mépris: Analysis of Mise-en-scéne”, Off Screen vol. 13 (11)
- 7th Session, 19/6/26: Bertolucci, The Conformist (1970)
- Christopher Orr, “Ideology and Narrative Strategy in Bertolucci’s The Conformist“, Film Criticism, 4(3), 1980, 41-48
- Raymod D. Boisvert, “Philosophical Themes in Bertolucci’s The Conformist“, Teaching Philosophy, 7(1), 1984, 49-52
- Adrian Switzer, 2013: “Fascism Re-performed: Benjaminian Mimesis, Platonic Methexis and Bertolucci’s The Conformist, in S. Biderman & M. Weinman (eds.), Plato and the Moving Image, Leiden: Brill 2019, 171-193
- Walter Jones, “Fascism in Mind: Bertolucci’s The Conformist“, 2021
