The Traces of Jacques Derrida's Cinema av Timothy (Assistant Professor Dept. of Film and Media Assistant Professor Dept. of Film and Media Emory

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Situated at the intersection of film and media studies, literary theory, and continental philosophy, The Traces of Jacques Derrida''s Cinema provides a trenchant account of the role of cinema in the oeuvre of one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century, Jacques Derrida (1930-2004). The book is animated by Derrida''s self-confessed passion for the movies, his reluctance to write about film despite the range of his corpus, and the generative encounters arising between his legacy and the field of film and media studies as a result. Given the expanse of its references, interdisciplinarity, and consideration of Derrida''s approach to the experience of both spectatorship and the act of being filmed, The Traces of Jacques Derrida''s Cinema contributes to the ongoing close analyses of the philosopher''s work while also providing a rigorous introduction to deconstruction.Author Timothy Holland interweaves historical and speculative modes of research and writing to articula