FILM THINKS Series

Film Thinks is an original new book series that asks: how has film influenced the way we
think? The books in this series will be concise, engaging editions written by international
authorities on film history and theory, each focusing on a past or present philosopher/thinker
whose intellectual landscape has been shaped by cinema. Whilst explaining and interpreting
these thinkers’ ideas and the films at their origin, the series will celebrate cinema’s capacity
to inspire and entertain – and ultimately to change the world. Aimed at film fans as well as
specialists, Film Thinks is devoted to knowledge about cinema and philosophy as much as to
the pleasure of watching films.

Queries, ideas and submissions to:

Series Editor, Professor Lúcia Nagib – l.nagib@reading.ac.uk
Series Editor, Dr Tiago de Luca – t.de-luca@warwick.ac.uk

Cinema Editor at I.B.Tauris, Maddy Hamey-Thomas

mhamey-thomas@ibtauris.com
+44 (0)20 7243 1225

Advisory Board
Martine Beugnet
Thomas Elsaesser
Catherine Grant
David Martin-Jones
Philip Rosen
Laura U. Marks

We invite proposals for projects on individual thinkers, approximately 80,000 words in length.
We particularly welcome proposals on writers whose relationship with the cinema is still little
known or explored.
Forthcoming titles:
‘Stanley Cavell and Film: Scepticism and Self-Reliance at the Cinema’
by Catherine Wheatley
‘Nöel Carroll on Film: A Philosophy of Art and Popular Culture’
by Mario Slugan
‘Roland Barthes and Film: Photography, Myth and Leaving the Cinema’
by Patrick ffrench
‘Slavoj Žižek and Film: A Cinematic Ontology’
by Christine Evans
‘Georges Didi-Huberman on Film: Politics of the Image’
by Alison Smith
‘Adorno and Film: Walter Benjamin, Jacques Rancière and the Politics of Aesthetics’
by James Hellings

Possible Subjects:
Antonin Artaud
André Bazin
Alain Badiou
Mikhail Bakhtin
Simone de Beauvoir
Walter Benjamin
Jorge Luis Borges
Judith Butler
Guy Debord
Gilles Deleuze
Stuart Hall
Julia Kristeva
Fredric Jameson
Jacques Lacan
Jean-François Lyotard
Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Vinicius de Morais
Pier Paolo Pasolini
Jacques Rancière
Susan Sontag
Paul Virilio