EDITED BY AFI FILM READERS Si EI ae ah ME aaa eH eich TRE ARR EE ROR TORTIE a eSFirst published 2000 Simultaneously published in the UK by Routledge thealge 200 Madison Ave Square, New York, NY 10010 Milton Park, Abi Oxon OXI44RN © 2000 Taylor & Fr: Routledge is an impsint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business cis e-Library, 2009. This edition published in the Taylor & Fra Tiv purchase your own copy of this or any of Taylor & Francis or Routledge’s collection of thousands of eBooks please go to www.eBookstore.iandi.co.uk, All rights reserved, No part of this book may he reprinted oF reproduced or utilised in any form or by any elestionie, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage of retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. ‘Trademark Notice: Prod trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent co infringe cf of corporate nanies may he trademarks or registered rary of Congress Cataloging in Publication Dara Avcatalog record has been requested for thisboe ISBN 0-203-89370-0 Master e-book ISBN. ISBN 10:0-415.96043-6 (hbk) ISBN 10-01415.96044-4 (pk) ISBN 10: 0-203-89370-0 (eb4) ISBN 13:978.0-415-060434 (hbk) ISBN 13-978-0-415-96084-4 (pbk) ISBN 15,978-0-203-89370-8 (ebh) Visit the Taylor & Francis Web site at TUEOLIG | sepjavoretersnataciecom ‘Taylor & Francic Geoup and the Routledge Web site at tnforms ple. jyip:/fwww.routledge-ny.comcontents illustrations ix acknowledgments xi introduction xiii that perpetually abscure object of theory: xiii part one: european film theory 1 1. european film theory: from crypto-nationalism to trans-nationalism 3 paul coates 2. the aesthetics of race in european film theory 7 tobias magl 3. the disunity of film theory and the disunity of aesthetics 2 casey hashins 4. real location, fantasy space, performative place: double occupancy and mutual interference in curopean cinema a thomas elsaesser part two: film and philosophy 63 5._film as philosophy: a mission impossible? 65 jodm mullarkey $6 platonic reconstruction and residual kantianism in film theory 80 colin hurt 7._epstein, bergson, and vision 9% smalcala turvey 8. heidegger and cinema 108 bri price