Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence

Why might interdependence, the idea that we are made up of our relations, be horrifying? Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence argues that philosophy can outline the contours of the dark spectre, and that film can shine a light on its shadowy details, together revealing a horror of relations.

List of contents

Foreword: Fear of Film: Cinema and Affective Entanglements, Kendall Phillips
Introduction: The Horror of Relations, Jonathan Beever
Section 1: Familial Relations
Chapter 1: Love and Horror: In Bong Joon-Ho's Mother and Lee Chang-Dong's Poetry, Eunah Lee
Chapter 2: Predatory Masculinity and Domestic Violence in Charles Laughton's The Night of the Hunter, David Baumeister
Chapter 3: "Will God Forgive Us?: Interdependence and Self-Transcendence in Paul Schrader's First Reformed", Vernon W. Cisney
Section 2: Social-Political Relations
Chapter 4: The Dark Night Of Ecological Despair: Awaiting Reconsecration in Paul Schrader's First Reformed, Chandler Rogers and Tober Corrigan
Chapter 5: The Horror of Interdependence: Climate Migration Anxiety by the Radical Right in Pella Kågerman and Hugo Lilja's Aniara (2018) and Ari Aster's Midsommar (2019), Sydney Lane
Chapter 6: Dissecting the Corrupted Body Politic: Fear, 'Body Horror' and the Failure of Relations, Josh Grant-Young
Chapter 7: The Danger of Ecologi

About the author

Jonathan Beever is assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Central Florida and director of the UCF Center for Ethics.Jonathan Elmore is assistant professor of English at Savannah State University.

Product details

• Authors: Jonathan Beever
• Assisted by: Jonathan Beever (Editor), Beever Jonathan (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2021
• EAN: 9781793626257
• ISBN: 978-1-79362-625-7
• No. of pages: 250
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Gothic, PHILOSOPHY / Social, LITERARY CRITICISM / Gothic & Romance, Films, cinema, Social & political philosophy, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Romanticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General