Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida

Zusatztext

<span><span>Love in the Post</span><span> (2013) is inspired by Jacques Derridas book</span><span>The Post Card</span><span>. Like the book, the film plays with fact and fiction, weaving together the stories of a scholar of literature and a film director, alongside insights from critics and philosophers.<br><br>Theo Marks works in a university department that is soon to be closed. His wife Sophie, enigmatic and distant, is in analysis. Filmmaker Joanna struggles to make a film about</span><span>The Post Card</span><span>. These people are set on a collision course prompted by a series of letters that will change their lives.<br><br>The film features a never before seen interview with Derrida, alongside contributions from Geoff Bennington, Ellen Burt, Catherin Malabou, J. Hillis Miller and Samuel Weber.<br><br>Alongside the original screenplay, Martin McQuillan provides an extended commentary on Derridas original text, the film and its making. Joanna Callaghan reflects on her practice as a filmmaker and her engagement with philosophy as a director. The volume concludes with interviews between McQuillan and five leading Derrida scholars.<br></span></span>

Autorenportrait

<span><span>Martin McQuillan</span><span>is professor of Literary Theory and Cultural Analysis and Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Kingston</span><span></span><span>University, UK, where he is also Co-Director of The London Graduate School. He is a literary theorist, cultural critic and author and editor of many books and essays including</span><span>Roland Barthes (or the profession of cultural studies)</span><span> (Palgrave, 2011),</span><span>Deconstruction After 9/11</span><span> (Routledge, 2009) and</span><span>Deconstruction Reading Politics</span><span> (Palgrave, 2008).<br><br></span><span>Joanna Callaghan</span><span> is senior lecturer in filmmaking at the University of Sussex, UK. She is a practising filmmaker and director of production company Heraclitus Pictures.<br><br></span><span>Contributors:</span><span>Geoffrey Bennington, Asa Griggs Candler Professor of French and Comparative Literature, Emory University, USA; Ellen Burt, Professor of French and Italian, UC Irvine, USA; Catherine Malabou, Professor of Philosophy, Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy, Kingston University, UK; J. Hillis Miller, Distinguished Research Professor of Comparative Literature, UC Irvine, USA; Samuel Weber, Avalon Foundation Professor of Humanities, Northwestern University, USA</span></span>

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