Film and Philosophy
A special issue of Humanities (ISSN 2076-0787).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 1 June 2026 | Viewed by 15
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The dialogue between film and philosophy has been a major trend within Film Studies since the turn of the millennium, with work building on Deleuzian, Phenomenological, and Haptic approaches gaining greatest attention, but with significant work also drawing on Heideggerian, Eco-Philosophical, and Speculative Realist approaches amongst others. This special issue of humanities invites scholars and students to reflect on the legacy of this work but also encourages a consideration of how the intersection between film and philosophy may develop in the next decade. In the last two years, AI image and video generators have reshaped the ontology of the photographic image: for some, this marks the final demise of an idea of the image which extends back to the origins of photography in the 1840s, but for others it presents merely the next step in the long history of image-making technologies. What can Film-Philosophical approaches contribute to this debate, and how can our work interrogate the complex and evolving interactions between aesthetics and ethics in contemporary moving image cultures? We are especially keen to hear from postgraduate students and early career researchers, and although it recognizes work on all kinds of cinema, it hopes to encourage work on experimental and alternative cinematic traditions.
Dr. Corin Depper
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- film-philosophy
- Deleuze
- phenomenology
- eco-philosophy
- speculative realism
- experimental film
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