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

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.

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: 220mm, Width: 144mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 420g
ISBN: 9781350361423
ISBN 10: 1350361429
Series: Philosophical Filmmakers
Pages: 232
Publication Date: 04 September 2025
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
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).

Reviews for Chantal Akerman: Filmmaker and Philosopher

A fantastic resource: compelling philosophical insights and an indepth knowledge of Akerman’s oeuvre, paying attention to those better known works such as Jeanne Dielman alongside the less frequently explored later films. Accessible, erudite and enthusiastic. -- Ros Murray, Senior Lecturer in French, King's College London, UK