OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Film-Philosophy is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Blue Boys: Maurice Pialat, Nicolas Poussin and the Work of Art	7
Robert Pippin (2020) Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form	7
Film as Museum: One-of-a-Kind Objects in Berkun Oya's Bir Başkadır	6
When the Wind Is Gently Rustling: Film and the Aesthetics of Natural Beauty	3
Eugenie Brinkema (2022). Life-Destroying Diagrams	3
Attention and ambience in The Zone of Interest	3
Immortality, the Good Life and Romantic Love in Groundhog Day and Only Lovers Left Alive	2
Genevieve Yue (2021). Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality	2
Sicario and the Cinematic Infrastructures of Necroplasticity	2
Jenna Ng (2021). The Post-Screen through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie	2
What Is the Work of Animation? The Plasticity of Time in the Fourth-Dimensional Image	2
The Intensive-Image and the Poetic Film Tradition: Notes on Ruiz, Deren, Pasolini, Buñuel and Deleuze	2
Can the West Speak? (Picturing the Quilting Point in Cambodian and Palestinian Films)	1
Kracauer and Tarkovsky’s Cinema of Redemptive Estrangement	1
Dominic Lash (2023). Robert Pippin and Film: Politics, Ethics, and Psychology After Modernism	1
Jussi Parikka (2023). Operational Images: From the Visual to the Invisual	1
Hans Maes and Katrien Schaubroeck (2021) (eds.) Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight: A Philosophical Exploration	1
Victor Fan (2022). Cinema Illuminating Reality: Media Philosophy through Buddhism	1
The Colour of Film-Philosophy	1
Dwelling in the Abyss: Society in Werner Herzog and Martin Heidegger	1
Every Wholly Other: Postsecular Pluralism in Isabel Rocamora'sFaith	1
Rituals Within Walls: Thinking Post-War Japan’s History through Cinematic Allegories of Everyday Life	1
Alyssa DeBlasio (2019) The Filmmaker’s Philosopher: Merab Mamardashvili and Russian Cinema	1
Chelsea Birks (2021). Limit Cinema: Transgression and the Nonhuman in Contemporary Global Film	1
Jean Ma (2022). At the Edges of Sleep: Moving Images and Somnolent Spectators	1

Lost and Beautiful or the (Environmental) Ethics of the Lyric Essay Film	1
Introduction: Catherine Malabou, Plasticity and Film	1
New Materialist Freedom in Chloé Zhao's Nomadland	1
Feminist Epigenet(h)ics: Maternal Waters, Gestational Forms and Mitochondrial Eves in Lucile Hadžihalilović’s Evolution	1
Hitchcock's Undertexts: Objects and Language	1
An Ambiguous World of Film: Cinematic Immersion beyond Early Heidegger	1
Mario Slugan (2020) Fiction and imagination in early cinema: A philosophical approach to film history	1
Documentary Fictions: Jacques Rancière and the Problem of Indexical Media	0
The Pleasure of Self-erasure: Malabou, (Sexual) Anarchy and Agnès Varda’s Sans toit ni loi	0
Finding Sunbeams in the Darkness: Michel Serres's Analogical Thinking and the Ethics of Listening in The Zone of Interest	0
The Proliferation of Representation in Antonin Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty and Sergei Parajanov's The Colour of Pomegranates	0
Freedom and the Weight of the Crown: Sartrean and Beauvoirian Existentialism in Peter Morgan'sThe Crown	0
Kierkegaard and the Education of Anxiety in A Fortunate Man : A Labyrinth of Inwardness	0
David Lynch, Embodiment and Mediality: Dealing With a Human Form	0
Lee Grieveson (2018) Cinema and the wealth of nations: Media, capital, and the liberal world system	0
Daniel Mourenza (2020). Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Film	0
Home Movies as Reliquaries of Memory: A Phenomenological Perspective	0
Lyricism of the Chance Encounter; or, The Cultural Specificity of Affect in (Examples of) Hong Kong Cinema	0
Reflexive Wonderings: Prospects and Parameters of a Heideggerian Approach to Film as Philosophy	0
A Mud Doctor Checking Out the Earth Underneath: Ruminations on Malick’s Days of Heaven and Loht’s Phenomenology of Film	0
Messianic Becoming in Blade Runner 2049: Dis-symmetrical Epiphanies and Identities	0
Hegel and the Hollywood Western: Violence, Law and the Right of Heroes in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance	0
Nico Baumbach (2019) Cinema/Politics/Philosophy	0
Shane Denson (2023). Post-Cinematic Bodies	0
Phenomenological Juxtaposition in the Experimental Cinema of Stan Brakhage and Manuela de Laborde	0
The Ethics of Refusal in Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life	0
The Availability of Jim Jarmusch’s Film-Philosophy: Wittgenstein, Derrida and Private Language in Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai	0
James Harvey (2023). John Akomfrah	0
The Prehistoricity of Cinema: Werner Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams	0
Death as Film-Philosophy’s Muse: Deleuzian Observations on Moving Images and the Nature of Time	0
When Sympathy Hesitates: An Empathetic Understanding of Cinematic Slowness in Stray Dogs	0
Existential and Phenomenological Horror in Les Diaboliques	0
The Crisis of Voice in the Songs of Pyaasa	0
First Nations Australian Cinema and the Unrepresentable: The Sublime in Warwick Thornton’s Sweet Country	0
Extremely Tiny and Indivisible Dust: Cinematic Buddhist Studies and the Spatial Experience of Seeing Hans Richter’s Rhythmus 21	0
Editorial: Film-Philosophy-Poetry	0
Malabou's Cineplastics and Contemporary French Film: Jacques Audiard, Céline Sciamma and Mia Hansen-Løve	0
Plastic Surgery: Under the Skin, Suture, Destructive Plasticity and Post-Cinematic Ontologies	0
Love Objects: Eros and the Materialistic Aesthetics of Ernst Lubitsch	0
Introduction: Critical Race Theory and Film-Philosophy	0
Rizvana Bradley (2023). Anteaesthetics: Black Aesthesis and the Critique of Form	0
Francesco Sticchi (2025). The Politics of Monstrous Figures in Contemporary Cinema: Witches, Zombies, and Cyborgs Re-Enchanting the Ends of the World	0
The Dweller on the Threshold: Whiteness, the Family and the End of Classical Cinema	0
Dasein and the Question of the Heterogenous Film Viewer: A Commentary on Loht’s Heideggerian Phenomenology of Film	0
Machine Vision and Encoded Behaviour in Harun Farocki's Later Work	0
(Re)sounding Audre Lorde: Queer Crip Chorus in Lana Lin’s Experimental Documentary	0
Cinematic Rehearsals of Phenomenology: On the Ontic-Ontological Schema and Heideggerian Film Theory	0
David Martin-Jones (2022). Columbo: Paying Attention 24/7	0
The Black Android, Janelle Monáe and Crossover Stardom: Race and Technology On-screen	0
Craig Fox and Britt Harrison (Eds.) (2023). Philosophy of Film Without Theory	0

The Cinematic Anthropocene and the Future Politics of Killing	0
Meek’s Cutoff, Hobbes and the Ambiguities of Political Foundation: An Alternative Political Philosophy of the Western	0
Salar Mameni (2023). Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics	0
Affective Assemblages of Material Culture: Qi Pao, Mahjong and Performance in Ang Lee’s Lust, Caution	0
Michel Serres, Topology and Folded Time in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk	0
Chiara Quaranta (2023). Iconoclasm in European Cinema: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Image Destruction	0
Poetic Objects: Bachelardian Reverie, Reverberation and Repose in Claire Denis'35 Shots of Rum	0
Indigenous Screen Sovereignty in the Genre Films of Lisa Jackson, Elle - Máijá Tailfeathers and Danis Goulet	0
Introduction: Heidegger and the Phenomenology of Film	0
Cinematic Mythmaking in Andrey Zvyagintsev's The Return and The Banishment	0
Film as Artificial Intelligence: Jean Epstein, Film-Thinking and the Speculative-Materialist Turn in Contemporary Philosophy	0
Desire for Life: Stanley Cavell, Martin Scorsese and the Gangster Genre	0
Sarah Cooper (2019). Film and the imagined image	0
Francesco Casetti (2023). Screening Fears: On Protective Media	0
Tanya Shilina-Conte (2025). Black Screens, White Frames: Gilles Deleuze and the Filmmaking Machine	0
Is It a Wonderful Life? Frank Capra and Objective List Theories of Worth	0
Truth, Beauty and Goodness: Freedom and the Platonic Triad in Eric Rohmer’s Film Theory	0
Black Cinematic Poethics	0
Anima(l) Moralia, or Righteous Anger: Agnieszka Holland’s Spoor	0
The Matter of Manual Traces: Letters, Photographs and Bean Paste in Naomi Kawase’s Cinema of Touch	0
Towards the Right to Cinematic Opacity: Navigating Transparency, Migration and Whiteness in Europe	0
Martin P. Rossouw (2021) Transformational Ethics of Film: Thinking the Cinemakeover in the Film-Philosophy Debate	0
Joshua Sikora (Ed.), A Critical Companion to Terrence Malick	0
Francesco Sticchi (2021). Mapping Precarity in Contemporary Cinema and Television: Chronotopes of Anxiety, Depression, Expulsion/Extinction	0
Julian Hanich & Martin P. Rossouw (Eds.) (2023). What Is Film Good For? On the Values of Spectatorship	0
Voir venir the New Wave: Plasticity in Jacques Rivette’s Film Criticism	0
White Material: Ivory tiles, white womanhood, and white supremacy in Jean-Marc Vallée’s Sharp Objects	0
In the Mood for Heideggerian Boredom? Film Viewership as Being-in-the-World	0
From Ascetic Ideals to Honest Illusions: A Nietzschean Interpretation of Inception	0
Padraic Killeen (2022). The Dark Interval: Film Noir, Iconography, and Affect	0
Countering the Disadvantage: Stasis as an Emancipatory Minimalist Legacy in Chantal Akerman's Cinema	0
A Phenomenology of Sonic Displacement in Film Noir	0
Matilda Mroz (2020). Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema: Posthumous Materiality and Unwanted Knowledge	0
Cinephilistinism and the Second Coming	0
Speculative Transitions: Hegel, John Huston’s Moby Dick and the Dissolve	0
Angels, Guests and Sadists: On-Screen Poetry in the Cinema of Pier Paolo Pasolini	0
The Monstrous Mark of Cinema: Mulholland Drive, Spherology, and the “Virtual Space” of Filmic Fiction	0
The Action Mode: Mile 22 and the Tension of Hypermediated Embodiment	0
(Don’t) Look Back: Three Portraits of a Lady on Fire	0
Steven DeLay (ed.) (2023). Life Above the Clouds: Philosophy in the Films of Terrence Malick	0
Vivian L. Huang (2022). Surface Relations: Queer Forms of Asian American Inscrutability	0
Inauthenticity as a Disruption of Neoliberal Resilience Discourse in Brady Corbet'sVox Lux	0
Kelli Fuery (2022).Ambiguous Cinema: From Simone de Beauvoir to Feminist Film Phenomenology	0
Radu Jude, Richard Rorty and the Barbarians: Art, Irony and Solidarity in a Hypernormalised World	0
Self-Effacing Barbie: The Ideal, the Real and the Quest for Authentic Selfhood	0
Response to Critical Views of Phenomenology of Film	0
Malabou, Medicine and Film: Screening Brain Injury, Organ Transplantation and Plasticity in Katell Quillévéré'sHeal the Living	0
Strata, Narrative, and Space inIci et ailleurs	0
Rethinking Inside and Outside: The Door in Ernst Lubitsch'sWhen I Was Deadand Charlie Chaplin'sThe Adventurer	0
Balkan Transits: Becoming-Other in Theo Angelopoulos’s The Suspended Step of the Stork	0
Ewa Mazierska and Lars Kristensen (eds.) (2020) Third Cinema, World Cinema and Marxism	0
The Filter and the Viewer: On Audience Discretion in Film Noir	0
Tiago de Luca (2021)Planetary Cinema: Film, media and the earth	0
Nietzschean Themes in Béla Tarr's The Turin Horse	0
Mary Ann Doane (2021) Bigger Than Life: The Close-up and Scale in the Cinema	0
Neptune Frost and the Anthropocene: Rethinking Third Cinema’s Anticolonial Politics	0
Aesthetic Experience, Film Comedy and Suffering in Sullivan’s Travels : The Prisoners’ Laughter	0
Matthew Rukgaber (2022).Nietzsche in Hollywood: Images of theÜbermenschin Early American Cinema	0
Take My Breath Away: Review of Mila Zuo (2022) Vulgar beauty: Acting Chinese in the global sensorium	0
Even the Sea is Broken: Return and Loss in Razan AlSalah’s Video Works	0
Profane Illumination: On the Racial Limits of Documentary Realism	0
Derivative Desires and Plastic Pedagogies: Malabou, Psychoanalysis and The Big Short	0
Vittorio Gallese and Michele Guerra (2020) The Empathic Screen: Cinema and Neuroscience	0
Eternity Descending into Time: Badiou and the Cinematic Temporality of Love	0
Beller, Jonathan (2018) The message is murder: The substrates of computational capital Beller, Jonathan (2021) The world computer: Derivative conditions of racial capitalism	0
Introduction to Special Issue: Film Objects	0