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Corey P. Cribb

Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow

My postdoctoral research project concerns the question of sens (i.e. meaning), and its relation to le sensible (i.e. perception and affect), in French film theory and philosophy. I am presently working on my debut monograph, Film and the Philosophy Sense, which analyses French language debates over cinematic meaning from the 1940s to the present, with a focus on the film theoretical writings of Gilles Deleuze, Marie-Claire Ropars, Jean-Luc Nancy and Jacques Rancière. More broadly, I am interested in the history of film theory, the philosophy of film, global art and modernist cinemas, and the relationship between technological change and audio-visual aesthetics.

Before commencing my Government of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellowship (Project ID: GOIPD/2024/232) at Technological University Dublin, I received an MSc in Film Studies from the University of Edinburgh (2017) and a PhD in Screen and Cultural Studies from the University of Melbourne (2024). I have taught courses in Film Studies, Media Studies, and Cultural Studies, as well as foundational Arts courses, at the University of Melbourne and Deakin University, and lectured on my research at the University of Melbourne and Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy.

My published research has appeared in Cultural Politics (Duke University Press), French Studies Bulletin (Oxford University Press) and Transformations (independent). In addition to my Taighde Éireann (Research Ireland) award, I have regularly received funding for archival research, international conference travel and film programming, including awards from the University of Melbourne French Trust Fund (on two occasions), the Eric Ormond Baker Charitable Fund, the University of Melbourne Student Services and Amenities Fee Grants Program, and the Networking Ecologically Smart Territories secondment programme (Marie Skłodowska-Curie RISE Action Programme)

Guest-edited journal issue:

Cribb, Corey P., Laurence Kent, Warwick Mules, and Laurent Shervington (eds). 2024. “Idealism and Contemporary Film Theory”, special issue of Transformations: Journal of Media, Culture and Society (37): https://www.transformationsjournal.org/2024-issue-no-37-idealism-and-contemporary-film-theory/

Journal Articles:

Cribb, Corey P. 2024. “Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Vivian Sobchack and the Materialisation of Cinematic Sense”. Transformations (37): 35-52.

Cribb, Corey P. 2024. “On Work and Worklessness in Beau Travail”. French Studies Bulletin 45 (169-170): 23-27.

Cribb, Corey P. 2021. “‘To Believe in an Image (Again)’: The Politics of the Index, André Bazin’s Ontology of Sense, and the Antidote to Digital Skepticism”. Cultural Politics 17 (3): 314-332.

Book Reviews:

Cribb, Corey, P. 2024. “The Enigma of Werner Herzog”. Review of Every Man for Himself and God Against All, by Werner Herzog. Australian Book Review (June): unpaginated.

Cribb, Corey, P. 2024. Review of Understanding Modernism, Understanding Nancy, edited by Cosmin Toma. French Studies 78 (3): 545-546.

Cribb, Corey, P. 2022. “Do We Need Digital Tarkovsky?”. Review of Digital Tarkovsky, by Metahaven. Senses of Cinema (103): unpaginated.

Cribb, Corey, P. 2020. Review of Blanchot and the Moving Image: Fascination and Spectatorship, by Calum Watt. Film-Philosophy 24 (1): 71-74.

Other Publications:

Cribb, Corey P., Laurence Kent, Warwick Mules, and Laurent Shervington. Editorial to “Idealism and Contemporary Film Theory: Subjectivity, Politics, Technics”. Transformations (37): unpaginated.

Cribb, Corey P. and Campbell Walker. 2024. “Le Retour à Lumière: Jean Eustache’s Numéro Zéro’. Melbourne Cinémathèque Annotation on Film, Senses of Cinema (110): unpaginated.

Symposium and Conference Organisation:

Philosophy of Screen Media Symposium. Co-organised with Marilyn Stendera and Andrea Andiloro. The University of Melbourne. July 13^th, 2024.

Graduate Conference on the “Aesthetics of Care”. Co-organised with Cristóbal Escobar. The University of Melbourne. December 7^th, 2023.