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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 Ecological and Economic Interdependence in the Films of Cormac McCarthy, Jonathan Elmore and Rick Elmore
Section 3: Techno-Ecological Relations
Chapter 8: When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth: The Horror of Being Prey and Forgetting Nature, Yet Again, in Jurassic Park and Jurassic World, Eric S. Godoy
Chapter 9: Weird Ecologies and the Uncanny in The Happening, Brian Onishi
Chapter 10: Resident Evil, the Zomborg, and the Dark Side of Technological Interdependence, Jonathan Beever
Chapter 11: When the Flame Goes Out: The Horror of Connected Consciousness, Luis Favela
Conclusion: Imaginaries of Interdependence, Jonathan Beever
Coda: Difficult Intersubjectivity: Interdependence and Cinematic Ethics, Robert Sinnerbrink
About the author
Edited by Jonathan Beever - Contributions by David Baumeister; Vernon W. Cisney; Tober Corrigan; Rick Elmore; Jonathan Elmore; Luis Favela; Eric Godoy; Josh Grant-Young; Sydney Lane; Eunah Lee; Brian Onishi; Kendall Phillips; Chandler Rogers and Robert Si
