Timothy Holland is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Emory University and co-editor of Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture.
No one has tended more carefully or convincingly to the cinematic dimension of Derrida's thought than Holland. The Traces of Jacques Derrida's Cinema pushes Derrida's work into the twenty-first century, where the visual is no longer a turn but a norm, in truly useful and utterly poetic ways. More than just a reading of Derrida, this book is also a beautiful introduction to the work of a very important new voice in film philosophy. * Brian Price, Professor of Cinema Studies, University of Toronto * Until the publication of Timothy Holland's book, we knew that Derrida was an avid viewer of films, and that he had been interviewed a few times on the topic of cinema. Now we know so much more. Not only has Holland unearthed every archival piece, he has crafted an ingenious compendium of the ways in which cinematic questions haunt Derrida's work, and rightly emphasized, among those questions, ideas concerning belief, credence and trust that are central to the moving image. Combining detailed knowledge of Derrida, and a keen film theoretical intelligence, The Traces of Jacques Derrida's Cinema has convincingly 'busted' what were previously little more than indistinct ghostings. * David Wills, Professor of French Studies, Brown University *