Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida

Martin McQuillan; Joanna Callaghan

doi:10.5771/9781783480067

Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida

The Screenplay and Commentary

1. Edition 2014

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doi.org/10.5771/9781783480067
ISBN print: 978-1-78348-005-0
ISBN online: 978-1-78348-006-7
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham

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Abstract

Love in the Post (2013) is inspired by Jacques Derrida’s book The Post Card. Like the book, the film plays with fact and fiction, weaving together the stories of a scholar of literature and a film director, alongside insights from critics and philosophers.

Theo Marks works in a university department that is soon to be closed. His wife Sophie, enigmatic and distant, is in analysis. Filmmaker Joanna struggles to make a film about The Post Card. These people are set on a collision course prompted by a series of letters that will change their lives.

The film features a never before seen interview with Derrida, alongside contributions from Geoff Bennington, Ellen Burt, Catherin Malabou, J. Hillis Miller and Samuel Weber.

Alongside the original screenplay, Martin McQuillan provides an extended commentary on Derrida’s original text, the film and its making. Joanna Callaghan reflects on her practice as a filmmaker and her engagement with philosophy as a director. The volume concludes with interviews between McQuillan and five leading Derrida scholars.

Schlagworte

Deconstruction Film-Philosophy Aesthetics Continental Philosophy

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Preface
1–4 ILLUSTRATION 1–4
5–52 LOVE IN THE POST: The Screenplay 5–52
53–56 CREDITS 53–56
57–96 REFLECTIONS 57–96
97–102 THE LEGS OF FREUD: A Note on Autobiography in Derrida’s The Post Card 97–102
103–112 A POST CARD FOR KITTLER 103–112
113–122 AUTOBIOBIBLIOGRAPHIES: Derrida in the Library 113–122
123–126 THE SEX LIVES OF THE PHILOSOPHERS: Prolegomena to a Thesis 123–126
127–130 EROS IN THE AGE OF TECHNICAL REPRODUCTABILITY 127–130
131–144 INTERVIEW I: ‘An enterprise that is doomed to failure’ 131–144
145–156 INTERVIEW II: ‘We have flipped over the candle’ 145–156
157–170 INTERVIEW III: ‘Cinema is not a brain reading’ 157–170
171–198 INTERVIEW IV: ‘But I love literature . . . me too (moi aussi)’ 171–198
199–212 INTERVIEW VI: ‘It is called “deltiology”’ 199–212
213–238 FILMING DECONSTRUCTION/DECONSTRUCTING FILM 213–238
239–242 INDEX 239–242
243–244 ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS 243–244

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