Love in the Post: From Plato to Derrida

Martin McQuillan; Joanna Callaghan

doi:10.5771/9781783480067

Summary

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.

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Copyright year: 2014
ISBN-Print: 978-1-78348-005-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-78348-006-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 244
Product type: Book Titles

1. CONTENTS No access
2. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS No access
3. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS No access
4. TRAILER No access
ILLUSTRATION No access Pages 1 - 4
LOVE IN THE POST: The Screenplay No access Pages 5 - 52
CREDITS No access Pages 53 - 56
REFLECTIONS No access Pages 57 - 96
THE LEGS OF FREUD: A Note on Autobiography in Derrida’s The Post Card No access Pages 97 - 102
A POST CARD FOR KITTLER No access Pages 103 - 112
AUTOBIOBIBLIOGRAPHIES: Derrida in the Library No access Pages 113 - 122
THE SEX LIVES OF THE PHILOSOPHERS: Prolegomena to a Thesis No access Pages 123 - 126
EROS IN THE AGE OF TECHNICAL REPRODUCTABILITY No access Pages 127 - 130
INTERVIEW I: ‘An enterprise that is doomed to failure’ No access Pages 131 - 144
INTERVIEW II: ‘We have flipped over the candle’ No access Pages 145 - 156
INTERVIEW III: ‘Cinema is not a brain reading’ No access Pages 157 - 170
INTERVIEW IV: ‘But I love literature . . . me too (moi aussi)’ No access Pages 171 - 198
INTERVIEW VI: ‘It is called “deltiology”’ No access Pages 199 - 212
FILMING DECONSTRUCTION/DECONSTRUCTING FILM No access Pages 213 - 238
INDEX No access Pages 239 - 242
ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS No access Pages 243 - 244