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NBN Episodes hosted by Bill:

Film September 16, 2020

Roland Barthes and Film

Myth, Eroticism and Poetics

Patrick Ffrench

Hosted by Bill Schaffer
Roland Barthes and Film: Myth, Eroticism and Poetics (Bloomsbury) is a book by Patrick Ffrench, Professor of French at Kings College. It is a comprehensively researched and finely argued book …
Film June 11, 2020

Filmed Thought

Cinema as Reflective Form

Robert Pippin

Hosted by Bill Schaffer
Robert Pippin's book Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form (University of Chicago Press, 2020) is a work in the philosophy of film published in 2020 by the University of Chicago …
Intellectual History March 23, 2020

Emancipation After Hegel

Achieving a Contradictory Revolution

Todd McGowan

Hosted by Bill Schaffer
An Interview with Todd McGowan about his recent Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution (Columbia University Press, 2019). The book advocates for the relevance of Hegel’s dialectical method to …