Current Semester
PHL 328: Philosophy and Film
PHL 354: Philosophy of Race
Advising: Philosophy
Office Hours: Mondays11am-noon, Fridays 1-3pm (Spring 2013 semester) or by appointment
Office: Wilson 2-106
Email: dflory@montana.edu
Phone: (406) 994-5209
Curriculum Vitae: Click Here
Courses Taught: Click Here
Research Interests
Aesthetics
Philosophy and Film
Philosophy and Critical Race Theory
Education
PhD, University of Minnesota, 1995
Select Publications
Books
Race, Philosophy, and Film, co-edited with Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo (London and New York: Routledge, 2013)
Philosophy, Black Film, Film Noir (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2008).
Journal Articles
“Response to My Critics,” Film and Philosophy 16 (2012), 162-179.
“Cinematic Presupposition, Race, and Epistemological Twist Films,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 68:4 (2010), 379-387.
“Race, Empathy, and Noir in Deep Cover,” Film and Philosophy 11 (2007), 67-85.
“Spike Lee and the Sympathetic Racist,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64 (2006), 67-79; reprinted in Thinking Through Cinema: Film as Philosophy, eds. Murray Smith and Thomas E. Wartenberg (Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2006), 67-79.
“Race, Rationality, and Melodrama: Aesthetic Response and the Case of Oscar Micheaux,” Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 63 (2005), 327-338.
Book Chapters
“African-American Film Noir,” in The Blackwell Companion to African-American Film, eds. Mark A. Reid (London and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2013).
“Race and the Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance: Looking at Avatar, Machete, and The Help,” in Race, Philosophy, and Film, eds. Mary Bloodsworth-Lugo and Dan Flory (London and New York: Routledge, 2013).
“Ethnicity, Race, and Film Noir,” in The Blackwell Companion to Film Noir, eds. Andrew Spicer and Helen Hanson (London and Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2013).
“Bamboozled: Philosophy through Blackface” in The Philosophy of Spike Lee, ed. Mark Conard (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2011), 164-183.
“Evil, Mood, and Reflection in the Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men,”
in Cormac McCarthy: All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men, The Road, ed. Sara Spurgeon (London: Continuum, 2011), 117-134.
