Screen/Play: Derrida and Film Theory

Peter Brunette and David Wills extend the work of Jacques Derrida into a new realm—with rewarding consequences. Although Derrida has never addressed film theory directly in his writings, Brunette and Wills argue that the ideas he has developed in his critique of the logocentric foundations of Western thought, especially his notion of "Writing," can be usefully applied to film theory and analysis. They maintain that such an application might even begin to shift film from its traditional posi...