Chantal Akerman

Filmmaker and Philosopher

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by Andreja Novakovic

Type: Studies
Subject: Director > Chantal Akerman
Keywords: Chantal Akerman, director, Belgium, philosophy
Publishing date: 2025 (August 07, 2025) (Upcoming)
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Collection: Philosophical Filmmakers
Language: English

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Paperback • 240 pages
5 ½ x 8 ½ inches (14 x 21.5 cm)

ISBN

978-1-350-36141-6

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Book Presentation:
Belgian auteur Chantal Akerman's ouevre is profoundly philosophical, exploring everything from home and homelessness, work and social reproduction, self and identity, to desire in its many forms. In particular, Akerman turns her camera on contexts that had been previously neglected, such as transitional spaces like hotel lobbies and street corners as well as the domestic sphere, revealing their significance in structuring experience.

Andreja Novakovic looks at the role of rituals, gestures and habits in Akerman's (auto)fictional worlds drawing on writers from Hegel to Butler, Beauvoir and Federici. Chantal Akerman is a fascinating philosophical reinterpretation of one of the most important directors of European experimental and independent cinema.

About the Author:
Costica Bradatan is a Professor of Humanities in the Honors College at Texas Tech University, USA, and an Honorary Research Professor of Philosophy at University of Queensland, Australia. He is the author or editor of several books, and his work has been translated into many languages, including Dutch, German, Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese, and Farsi. Bradatan writes regularly for such publications as the New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, Aeon, Dissent, and The New Statesman, and serves as the Religion/Comparative Studies Editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books.

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