Chantal Akerman: Filmmaker and Philosopher

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Dr Andreja Novakovic (University of California, Berkeley, USA) Costica Bradatan (Texas Tech University USA)

Chantal Akerman

Filmmaker and Philosopher

Dr Andreja Novakovic (University of California, Berkeley, USA), Costica Bradatan (Texas Tech University USA)

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Bloomsbury Academic
04 September 2025

Individual film directors, film-makers; Philosophy: aesthetics; Social & political philosophy; Feminism & feminist theory

Series: Philosophical Filmmakers

Chantal Akerman turns her pioneering camera on neglected contexts

from transitional spaces like hotel lobbies and street corners, to domestic

spaces like kitchens and bedrooms.

Through her wide ranging films,

Akerman addresses subjects such as home and homelessness, work and

social reproduction, self and identity, and desire in its many forms.

This book is the first philosophical study of Akerman’s oeuvre. Andreja

Novakovic looks at patterns of staying put and moving on in the Belgian

auteur’s deeply personal body of work, drawing on writers from Cavell to

Beauvoir, and Federici. It is an absorbing reinterpretation of one of the

most important directors of European cinema, whose Jeanne Dielman was recently selected as Sight and Sound’s Greatest Film of All Time

By: Dr Andreja Novakovic (University of California Berkeley USA)
Edited by: Costica Bradatan (Texas Tech University USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 214mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 295g
ISBN: 9781350361416
ISBN 10: 1350361410
Series: Philosophical Filmmakers
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 04 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Acknowledgements 1. Introduction 2. Home 3. Work 4. Self 5. Desire Bibliography Index

Andreja Novakovic is Associate Professor of Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley, USA and affiliated with the Program in Critical Theory. She is the author of Hegel on Second Nature in Ethical Life (2017).