CINEMA 14 CFP: Film and Non-Western Thought
Edited by Patrícia Castello Branco (Ifilnova)
Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image welcomes submissions to its 14th issue on Film and Non-Western Thought. Non-Western thought is a term that has been used in the last decade, mainly in the field of political thought and international relations, aiming to convey traditions of thought that do not belong to Western and European philosophical canons. More than a geographical delimitation, non-Western thought aims at describing structures of thought born outside the European philosophical context. With this issue, we intend to integrate these traditions within the field of film and philosophy, broadening the very term ‘philosophy’ to incorporate non-Western rooted forms of thinking. These include the rich thought traditions of Asia, Africa and Native America, as well as the rest of the world. The way these traditions produce and are embedded in specific films or film theories can help us overcome the hegemony of Western worldviews, integrating the rich diversity of human thought in the field of cinema.
This issue will privilege essays that, through cinema, bring to light non-Western traditions of thought on metaphysics, mythology, secularization, social and political issues, technology, humans and non-human relationships, nature and the cosmos, the planet, human agency, existence, language, aesthetics, epistemology, moral, ethics, human knowledge, and art.
The themes include, but are not limited to: