ISSN 1466-4615
3 papers in the library · publishing 2019-2026
Film-Philosophy June 1, 2026 Ruochen Bo
This article reexamines Jean-Paul Sartre's early theory of emotion in light of his reflections on ego, consciousness, language and narrative, clarifying his often-overlooked but critical conception of magic. I first show how magical emotional consciousness transforms the instrumental world by disrupting deterministic logic and then trace a parallel reversal in The Transcendence of the Ego,...
Film-Philosophy October 1, 2023 J. Dutton
This article interprets David Lynch's Mulholland Drive (2001) to argue for the morphological influence cinematic images have on modernity's monstrous identity. It shows how Lynch's tactic of interweaving apparently discrete spaces of dream and reality – one often inverting or uncannily ironising the other – relies on the virtual space of cinema, which leaves a mark on understanding,...
Film-Philosophy September 27, 2019 D. Deamer
What is called “time travel” cinema is but one aspect in a tripartite series of interweaving modes of disjunctive narration which is also – simultaneously – a cinema of “many worlds” and “altered states”. Exploiting Gilles Deleuze's three syntheses of time, space, and consciousness from Difference and Repetition (1968) allows a conceptual development of these cinematic series through three...