From Virginia Woolf to bell hooks, women have written, thought about and worked with film, images, and the visual in philosophical ways since the inception of cinema, and yet their names are generally missing from the discipline of film philosophy. This anthology brings together, for the first time, a collection of writings by women philosophers, writers and thinkers on philosophical aspects of film and visual culture. The collection of texts in this book demonstrates a century of women writing about the visual, considering aesthetics, politics, and challenging dominant ideologies. All can inspire us to think anew about film and visual cultures. Feminist Film Philosophy re-frames the body of work available to film philosophers in schools, universities, and cinema audiences, and stages a long-overdue intervention in the field, thereby enabling the development of the discipline in important and vital ways.

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Lucy Bolton is Professor of Film Philosophy at Queen Mary, University of London, UK. She is author of Contemporary Cinema and the Philosophy of Iris Murdoch (2019), and Film and Female Consciousness: I*rigaray, Cinema and Thinking Women* (2011).

Inhalt

List of Figures
List of Permissions
Acknowledgements
Note on the Texts

General Introduction

Part 1: Thinking for a Feminist Philosophy of Cinema

1. The Cinema - Virginia Woolf

   2. The Male Gift - Christine Battersby
   3. A Note on Anger - Marilyn Frye
   4. The Sensory Celebration (I) - Anne Dufourmantelle

   Part 2: Film Aesthetics

2. Vision and Choice in Morality - Iris Murdoch

   6. The Language of Film - Katherine Thomson-Jones
   7. Back to the Future? Contemporary Cinema and the Challenges for Theorists - Sylvie Magerstädt
   8. Horrorism; or, On Violence Against the Helpless - Adriana Cavarero
   9. Shimmering Phantasmagoria: Trans/Cinema/Aesthetics in an Age of Technological Reproducibility - Eliza Steinbock
   10. Remembering in Art: The Horizontal and the Vertical - Siri Hustvedt

   Part 3: Film Phenomenology and Bodies

   11. Céline Sciamma's 'Queer' Cinema: Affirming Gestures of Refusal in Tomboy and Girlhood - Katharina Lindner
   12. Pain and Imagining - Elaine Scarry
   13. Pregnant Embodiment: Subjectivity and Alienation - Iris Marion Young
   14. The Beasts that Perish - Mary Midgley
       
       Part 4: Film and the Time Machine
   15. Creating Movies with a New Dimension: Time - Maya Deren
   16. Feminist Temporalities: Memory, Ghosts, and the Collapse of Time - Brydie Kosmina
   17. Sharing Time Across Unshared Horizons - Gail Weiss
   18. Time Binds, or, Erotohistoriography - Elizabeth Freeman
       Part 5: Film's Political Power 19. Uses of the Erotic: The Erotic as Power - Audre Lorde
   19. "Whose Pussy is This?" A Feminist Comment - bell hooks
   20. Posthuman Humanities: Life Beyond Theory - Rosi Braidotti
   21. Notes on an Alternative Model-Neither/Nor - Hortense J. Spillers
   22. Seeing in the Dark: Attentive Engagement - Jane Stadler

   Part 6: Changing the Dominant Imaginary

   24. Breasts - Rosemarie Garland-Thomson
   25. Accessible Futures, Future Coalitions - Alison Kafer
   26. Mammies, Matriarchs, and Other Controlling Images - Patricia Hill Collins
   27. Women and Bugs - Cynthia A. Freeland