The Philosophy of Michael Mann

Contributors

259 ContrIbutors VitoAdriaensens is a PhD student and teaching assistant in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Antwerp and researcher and lecturer at the School of Arts, University College Ghent. He is working on a dissertation that investigates the influence of nineteenth-century theatrical and pictorial strategies on the visual rhetoric of feature-length productions by Gaumont and Nordisk between 1908 and 1914 and, by extension, on the pan-European style of the 1910s. At the School of Arts, he is working on a project that focuses on the cinematic representation of fine arts, from living statues in early cinema to murderous wax museum artists. His research focuses on the interaction between visual arts, theater, and film, with an emphasis on silent cinema. In 2013, he has been a visiting scholar at the University of Copenhagen. RobertArnett is associate professor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. He teaches film history, criticism courses, and screenwriting. He has published in Creative Screenwriting, Journal of Popular Film and Television , Film Criticism, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video. His screenplays have won national awards and representation by RPM International in Hollywood. Also, his screenwriting students have won national awards and have gone on to MFA programs and graduate screenwriting programs. Jonah Corne is assistant professor in the Department of English, Film, and Theatre at the University of Manitoba. He received his PhD in 2008 from Cornell, where he wrote his dissertation on architecture in modernist literature . His essays and reviews have appeared in Film International, Literature/ Film Quarterly, Screening the Past, Modernist Cultures, and the anthology Georg Simmel in Translation (2006). David LaRocca is writer-in-residence at the New York Public Library and fellow at the Moving Picture Institute. He is the author of On Emerson (2003) and Emerson’s English Traits and the Natural History of Metaphor (2013) as well as the editor of Stanley Cavell’s Emerson’s Transcendental Etudes (2003), 260 Contributors The Philosophy of Charlie Kaufman (2011), and Estimating Emerson: An Anthology of Criticism from Carlyle to Cavell (2013). He is the director of the documentary film Brunello Cucinelli: A New Philosophy of Clothes (2013) and is currently editing a new volume—The Philosophy of War Films—for the University Press of Kentucky Philosophy of Popular Culture series. He has also contributed essays to the press’s volumes on Spike Lee (2011), the Coen brothers (updated edition, 2012), and Tim Burton (2014) in this same series. His articles on aesthetic theory, American philosophy, autobiography, and film have appeared in such journals as Epoché, Afterimage, Transactions, Liminalities, Film and Philosophy, Midwest Quarterly, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, and Journal of Aesthetic Education. R. Barton Palmer is Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University, where he also directs the Film Studies Program. He is the author, editor, or general editor of more than fifty books on various cinematic and literary subjects. Most recently, he has written To Kill a Mockingbird: The Relationship Between the Text and the Film (2009), Hollywood’s Tennessee: The Williams Films and Postwar America (2009, with Robert Bray), and Shot on Location: Real Space in Postwar American Film (forthcoming). He has edited or coedited several works, including Larger Than Life: Movie Stars of the 1950s (2010), The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh (2012, with Steven Sanders), “A Little Solitaire”: John Frankenheimer and Postwar America (2012), Modern American Drama on Screen (2013), and Modern British Drama on Screen (2013). Tom Paulus teaches film studies in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at the University of Antwerp. He is the former curator of film and digital media at the Museum for Contemporary Art and former editor of the media journal AS/Andere Sinema. He has published on issues of genre and film style in such journals as Film International and Foundations of Science. His essays on pictorial style in the films of John Ford have been published in three edited collections: John Ford in Focus (2007); Westerns: Movies from Hollywood and Paperback Westerns ( 2007); and New Perspectives on The Quiet Man ( 2009). He is also the editor, with Rob King, of Slapstick Symposium : Essays on Silent Comedy ( 2010). Murray Pomerance is professor in the Department of Sociology at Ryerson University. He is the author of An Eye for Hitchcock (2004), Savage Contributors 261 Time (2005), Johnny Depp Starts Here (2005), The Horse Who Drank the Sky: Film Experience...