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News Next talk:
26/27 June 2008: BFI Education Media
Studies Conference, London Filmosophy
selected as a Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2007 Review
forthcoming in Film-Philosophy. Latest
reviews: 'Immensely
rewarding and stimulating. The spirit of the book is one which reminds me of
the great soothsayers of modern painting – Apollinaire, Kandinsky, Kokoschka, Marinetti, Malevich and others – and it is little wonder that
Frampton relies on many writers of the 1920s who pulsated with the future promise
of cinema: Dulac, Epstein, Eisenstein, Balazs. There is indeed a future promise in Filmosophy:
that the future of cinema is alive and well, and some of us are awaiting its
thoughts with excited anticipation.' --- Richard
Rushton, Review of Filmosophy, Screen, vol.
49 no. 2, Summer 2008. 'Scanning
FramptonÕs marvelously wrought genealogies is a fine refresher course in
film-theoretical writing, and engaging with his ideas is a stimulating way to
rethink oneÕs own notions of what cinema is, can be, and should be. . . . If
there is truth in FramptonÕs claim that for filmosophy 'film is the beginning
and the future of our thoughtÕ, then his commitment to innovative theory and
forward-looking criticism is necessary, timely, and welcome.' --- David
Sterritt, Review of Filmosophy, Film International,
vol. 6 no. 2, 2008. 'Daniel
FramptonÕs remarkable Filmosophy is a book
that squarely confronts the question: how should we speak about film? What kind
of philosophical writing does justice to the experience of cinema? Frampton
cuts through the Gordian knot of contemporary film debates concerning
'subjective' versus 'objective' forms of the image, authorial intention,
auteurism, apparatus theory, narratology, cognitive problem-solving, and so
on. One should salute FramptonÕs achievement: Filmosophy
elaborates a strikingly original conceptualization of film experience which
also synthesizes much of the history of philosophical reflection on the
cinema.' --- Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University), Review of Filmosophy, Projections: The Journal for
Movies and Mind, vol. 1 no. 2, 2008. 'Filmosophy
functions as a wonderful introduction and overview . . . concerning the
conceptualisation of filmic thought and how it relates to our own thinking.
The idea that film produces thinking or is related to the human mind has
always been around in the history of cinema, but it has never been so
rigorously discussed or elaborated upon as in Frampton's book. Fimosophy
truly lays down an outline as well as a clear start off point for a new way
of thinking about cinematic images.' --- Ils
Huygens, Review
of Filmosophy, Scope: An Online Journal of Film and TV Studies,
no. 10, February 2008. 'The key motive of filmosophy is the author's emphasis on the
aesthetic character of film works. Be it his accentuation of a radical
difference between a filmgoer's mind and the filmind, be it his harsh
criticism of cognitivists for their dominant interest in story, or his rave
for a new kind of filmgoer experience – there is always a call for the
forgotten aesthetic autonomy of a film detectable in the background. I am
sure that thanks to this aesthetic undertone filmosophical readers will have
more to think about.' --- Tereza Hadravov‡, 'Filmosophy:
Re-Imagining the Moving Image', Vertigo,
vol. 3 no. 8, Spring 2008. * Filmosophy is a provocative manifesto for a radically philosophical way
of understanding cinema. The book coalesces twentieth-century ideas of film
as thought (from MŸnsterberg to Deleuze) into a practical theory of
'film-thinking', arguing that film style conveys poetic ideas through a
constant dramatic 'intent' about the characters, spaces, and events of film.
With discussions of contemporary filmmakers such as BŽla Tarr, Michael Haneke,
and the Dardennes, this bold intervention into the study of film and
philosophy will stir argument and discussion among both filmgoers and
filmmakers alike. --- London: Wallflower Press, 2006 | ISBN 1-904764-84-3 (pbk) £15.00 |
1-904764-85-1 (hbk) £45.00 | 256 pp. Info: Book Contents, Introduction, Wallflower Press, Columbia University Press, Review
Copies, Buy Cherwell,
Choice, Communication Booknotes Quarterly, Contemporary Magazine, Ekran,
Empire, De Filmkrant, Forum for Modern Language Studies, Frieze, Illuminace,
Projections, Scope, Senses of Cinema, Sight & Sound, Vertigo. Ian Christie,
Tom Conley, Colin Davis, Harmony Korine, Colin McGinn, Adrian Martin, Martha
P. Nochimson, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith, D. N. Rodowick, Dan Shaw, Vivian
Sobchack, Emma Wilson, George M. Wilson Translations Mohammad
Shahb‰'s Persian translation of an early version of the Introduction
(2001) * Club Filmosophy 28 April
2008, Claire
Denis's The Intruder, Roxy, London (in association with Tartan Video)
– with guest speaker Laura McMahon (Cambridge University) 27 March
2008: Haneke's Hidden, BFI Southbank, London 26
Feb 2008: Medem's The Red Squirrel, Roxy, London
– with guest speaker Jo Evans
(University College London) 26
Nov 2007: Haneke's 71 Fragments of a Chrology of Chance,
Roxy, London – with guest speaker David Sorfa
(Liverpool John Moores University) 11
October 2007: Apichatpong's Syndromes and a Century, BFI
Southbank, London 10
Sept 2007: von Trier's Europa, Roxy, London 21
June 2007: Lynch's Inland Empire, BFI Southbank, London Talks Forthcoming
– 6 July 2008: Roundtable discussion, Film/Philosophy
conference, Bristol Forthcoming
– 26 June 2008: BFI
Education Media Studies Conference, London 6 May 2008: Talk/Interview,
St Anne's
College, Oxford 2 Feb 2008:
Talk & Seminar, Univeriteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands 10 Sept 2007:
Introduction to Filmosophy, Roxy, London 15 Oct 2006: Conversation with Harmony Korine, Renoir,
London (Press comment here) 28 Sept 2006:
What is Filmosophy?, Panel discussion (Jonathan Romney, Geoffrey
Nowell-Smith, Jonathan Ree) & Book launch, London Review
Bookshop, London [Read a report on the evening here] 2001:
Filmosophy: An Introduction, Wadham College, Oxford Texts Forthcoming
– Notes on Filmosophy: A Reply to Reviews Forthcoming
– Filmosophy Book Launch Discussion at the London Review Bookshop Forthcoming
– Filmosophical Cinema: On Lynch's Inland Empire I am a
Camera: On Harmony Korine, Tank
Magazine, 2007. A Filmosophy
of the Dardennes, Vertigo,
vol. 3 no. 3, Autumn 2006 Moving Images, The Guardian, 23 October 2006 Introduction, Filmosophy (2006) The Way that Movements Speak,
Film-Philosophy, vol. 5 no. 10, 2001 Filmosophy:
Colour, in MacCabe & Petrie, eds, Working Papers from the BFI
(London: BFI, 1996) Lars
von Trier x 6 (1993) On
Deleuze's Cinema (1991) News Archive Filmosophy put
forward by Columbia UP for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Katherine
Singer Kovacs Book Award 2008 * Discuss
Filmosophy at Film-Philosophy * |
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Filmosophy¨ is a registered U.S.
trademark owned by Valentin Stoilov (www.filmosophy.com) for educational
services in the field of motion picture history, theory, and production. Mr.
Stoilov is not the source or origin of this book and has not sponsored or
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