Special interest group:
Film and Philosophy

Convenors:  

• Laurence Kent (University of Bristol)
• Augustin Denis (University of Cambridge)

Overview

The Film and Philosophy BAFTSS Special Interest Group has members who are PhD students, professors and practitioners from universities in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and America. This reflects the burgeoning community of scholars who are bringing film and philosophy together in productive and radical ways. The SIG is not affiliated to any journal or institution, but rather is a forum for scholars and practitioners who are interested in exploring the philosophical potential of individual films, filmmakers, and the medium of film itself.

Members current projects include:​

• Film, moral philosophy and ethics
• Film and religion
• Filming end of life, ageing, death and beyond death
• Migration on film, the socio-political and the phenomenological
• Animals, ecology and cinema
• The relationships between film and the thought of particular philosophers from different philosophical traditions.
• The work of particular filmmakers and philosophical concerns
• Film technologies and technicities, including 3D, CGI, VR

Reports on activities

• Film and Philosophy SIG Report 2022
• Film and Philosophy SIG Report 2019

Founding members

• Salam Al-Mahadin, Professor, Al-Ahliyya Amman University​
• Lucy Bolton, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London​
• ​​William Brown, Senior Lecturer, University of Roehampton​
• Beth Carroll, Lecturer, University of Southampton​
• Catherine Constable, Professor, University of Warwick​
• Sarah Cooper, Professor, King’s College London​
• Bruce Eadie, PhD, Birkbeck​
• Steven Eastwood, Reader, Queen Mary University of London​
• Kelli Fuery, Assistant Professor, Chapman University (EU funded project site)​
• Jacqueline Furby, Senior Lecturer, Southampton Solent University
• ​Jeeshan Gazi, independent scholar​
• Felicity Gee, Lecturer, University of Exeter​
• Janet Harbord, Professor, Queen Mary University of London​
• Patrick Hazard, film distributor, UCL​
• Kierran Horner, PhD, King’s College London​
• Joseph Jenner, PhD, Kings College London​
• Steve Jones, Lecturer, University of Northumbria​
• Tina Kendall, Lecturer, Anglia Ruskin University​
• Alasdair King, Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London​
• Edward Lamberti, GTA, King’s College London​
• Nikolaj Lübecker, Professor, University of Oxford​
• David Martin Jones, Professor, University of Glasgow​​
• Douglas Morrey, Associate Professor/Reader, University of Warwick​
• Matilda Mroz, Lecturer, University of Sussex​
• Lucia Nagib, Professor, University of Reading​
• Silke Panse, Reader, University for the Creative Arts​
• Hannah Paveck, PhD, King’s College London​
• Alice Pember, PhD, Queen Mary University of London​
• Anat Pick, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London​
• Agnieszka Piotrowska, Reader, University of Bedfordshire​
• Isabel Rocamora, PhD, University of Edinburgh and Queen Mary University of London (see also here)​
• Libby Saxton, Senior Lecturer, Queen Mary University of London​
• Corey Schultz, Lecturer, University of Southampton​
• Sanghita Sen, PhD, University of St Andrews​
• Daniel Shaw, Professor, Lock Haven University​
• Mario Slugan, Postdoctoral Associate Fellow, University of Warwick​
• David Sorfa, Senior Lecturer, University of Edinburgh​
• Lindsay Steenberg, Senior Lecturer, Oxford Brookes University​
• Teet Teinemaa, PhD, University of Warwick​
• Victoria Walden, Teaching Fellow, University of Sussex​
• Thomas Waters, PhD, University of Essex​
• Elizabeth Watkins, Lecturer, University of Leeds​
• Catherine Wheatley, Senior Lecturer, King’s College London​
• Daniel Yacavone, Lecturer, University of Edinburgh
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