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ISSN 1466-4615 · Edinburgh University Press · 1,086 articles in the index
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Kierkegaard and the Education of Anxiety in A Fortunate Man: A Labyrinth of Inwardness
In this article, we examine the lights and shadows of the inwardness of spiritual life that constitutes the human self through the drama of Per Sidenius in the film by the Danish director Bille August, A Fortunate Man (Lykke-Per, 2018) within the framework of the existential philosophy of Søren…
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Hegel and the Hollywood Western: Violence, Law and the Right of Heroes in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
This article explores the conjunction of Hegel and the Hollywood Western through a close analysis of The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, adjudicating between competing readings of Hegel by considering their varied application to the interpretation of the film. In particular, I examine how Pippin’s…
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Aesthetic Experience, Film Comedy and Suffering in Sullivan’s Travels: The Prisoners’ Laughter
This article examines the way aesthetic experience is represented in contrast to direct experience in Preston Sturges’s film Sullivan’s Travels (1941). The film portrays the efforts of a successful Hollywood film director to acquire the experience of suffering in order to make a film with social…
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A Phenomenology of Sonic Displacement in Film Noir
This paper analyzes the use of sounds displaced from their sources in classic film noir. Often understood as a dark and solipsistic moment in American cinema, interpretations of noir frequently emphasize isolated individuals who are physically, psychologically and socially displaced from their…
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First Nations Australian Cinema and the Unrepresentable: The Sublime in Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country
That which exceeds the frame is a persistent focus of First Nations Australian filmmaking. The Kaytetye director Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country (2017) exemplifies this formal and theoretical interrogation of the representation of Indigenous peoples within settler Australian visual culture. To…
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The Crisis of Voice in the Songs of Pyaasa
Actor-director Guru Dutt’s 1957 film Pyaasa (The Thirsty One) is about a poet, Vijay, and depicts his increasing despair over the world and loss of faith in the power of poetry. This political and artistic crisis is dramatized in the songs that Vijay performs as well as in the three women’s songs…
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Extremely Tiny and Indivisible Dust: Cinematic Buddhist Studies and the Spatial Experience of Seeing Hans Richter’s Rhythmus 21
Rhythmus 21 (Hans Richter, 1921) has earned a highly influential position in abstract or absolute film, presenting the rectangles of various sizes that seem to initiate a sense of depth. Nevertheless, the spatial experience of seeing this film can fall apart if Buddhist dust theory is applied to…
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Freedom, Anguish and Bad Faith in Mr. Nobody: Sartrean Existentialism in Cinema
This article explores how the film Mr. Nobody (2009), directed by Jaco Van Dormael, illustrates key concepts of Sartrean existentialism. The film exemplifies an existential condition through the character of Nemo Nobody (Jared Leto), whose life unfolds across multiple possible futures. His…
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Djibril Diop Mambéty's Decolonial Existentialism: Sartrean Praxis and the Critique of Bad Faith Humanism
This article argues that Jean-Paul Sartre's writings on existentialism and political praxis illuminate the critical decolonial work of Djibril Diop Mambéty's cinema. The article analyses Touki Bouki (1973), Hyenas (1992), Le Franc (1994) and The Little Girl Who Sold the Sun (1999) in terms of…
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Screening Existentialist Narcissism in Todd Field's Tár
Inspired by the writings of Jean-Paul Sartre, this article approaches Todd Field's Tár (2022) as an existentialist satire, in which humour is borne out by a conflict between bad faith and the way in which people can miss the truth about themselves by self-delusion. Commonly classified as a…
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Bad Faith, Death and Neoliberal Funny Business in Weekend at Bernie's: The Working Dead
This article reads Weekend at Bernie's (Ted Kotcheff, 1989) as not merely a throwaway farce, but an elucidation of the ways in which the logic of late capitalism both cultivates and relies on what Jean-Paul Sartre terms bad faith. Situated within this context, the film crystalises neoliberal logic…
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Existential Feelings in the Cinema of Ingmar Bergman
In this article I propose that films typically described as existential are not only concerned with classical existential themes – alienation or anxiety, solitude and despair – but with affective states that Matthew Ratcliffe calls “existential feelings” or “feelings of being.” These terms…
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Éric Rohmer with Kierkegaard and Nietzsche: Desire, Chance and Freedom
This article examines Éric Rohmer's cinema through the perspective of existential reflection, showing how his films engage with morality, faith and chance in everyday life. With particular attention to Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche, I trace how these perspectives unfold across his major…
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Magical Emotions: Jean-Paul Sartre and The Headless Woman
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…
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Existentialism and Freedom in WWI Films: The Soldier as Being-for-Itself
Drawing on Jean-Paul Sartre's concepts of being-in-itself and being-for-itself, this article examines how war reduces soldiers to cogs in a war machine and transforms individuals into soldiers whose sole function is to fight, thereby reducing them from what Sartre terms free beings-for-themselves…
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The Existential Ambiguity of Authentic Love in Alice Diop's Saint Omer
Using Simone de Beauvoir's and Frantz Fanon's existentialist phenomenology, this article examines an existentialist ethics of recognition as an act of authentic love in Alice Diop's Saint Omer (2022). Loosely based on a true story, Saint Omer tells a story of filicide: Laurence Coly leaves her baby…
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