Process Thought and Film

Capra, Bernt.  MindWalk: A Film for Passionate Thinkers.  The Atlas Production Company in Association with MindWalk Productions, 1990.

Cochrane, J. Scott.  “Toward a Satisfactory Approach to Religion and the Arts: Based Upon Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism and Susan K. Langer’s Philosophy.”  Ph.D. Diss., Claremont Graduate School, 1986.  (See Chapter 4: “A Theory of Film Based Upon Langer’s Philosophy of Art and Elements in Whitehead’s Philosophy of Organism,” pp. 162-210.  See also the “Epilogue: An Analysis of Buster Keaton’s Comic Film Classic, The General,” pp. 248-327).

Dean, William.  The American Spiritual Culture and the Invention of Jazz, Football, and the Movies.  New York, NY:  Continuum, 2002.  

Karsai, Gabor.  “The Poet of Cinema: Andrei Tarkovsky.”  Creative Transformation 9, no.3 (Spring 2000): 14-18.

Langer, Susan K.  Feeling and Form: A Theory of Art.  New York: Scribner, 1953.  (See the Appendix to the book.)

Lennon, Tari.  “The Hours: Sharing An Experience.”  Creative Transformation 12, no.3 (Summer 2003): 29.  

Malkemus, Scott. "7th Annual Whitehead International Film Festival." Process Perspectives: Newsmagazine of the Center for Process Studies 31, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 10, 21. 

Marshall, Rick "The Sixth Annual Whitehead International Film Festival." Process Perspectives: Newsmagazine of the Center for Process Studies 29, no. 3 (Winter 2007): 9-10.  [Aesthetics, Film]

Moore, Mary Elizabeth Mullino.  “Stories, Images, and Sound.” Creative Transformation 11, no. 3 (Summer 2002): 12-13.

Noles, Pam.  “Film Festival Looks at Relations of Human Community.”  LA Times, January 21, 2003.

Suchocki, Marjorie H.  “Bruce Almighty.”  Creative Transformation 12, no.3 (Summer 2003): 28.  

_____.  “Corporate Sin.”  Creative Transformation 10, no.2 (Winter 2001): 21-22. [A discussion of “Snow Falling on Cedars,” Dir. Scott Hicks; Starring Ethan Hawke, Youki Kudoh, Rich Yune, and Max von Sydow.  Based on Snow Falling on Cedars, by David Guterson (New York: Vintage Books, 1995).]

_____.  “Road to Perdition:  The Dark Side of Creative Transformation.”  Process Perspectives 11, no.4 (Fall 2002): 22-23.  [Review of “Road to Perdition” (Dreamworks; Dir. Sam Mendes)]

_____.  “Speaking of God.” Creative Transformation 10, no.4 (Fall 2001): 20-21. [A discussion of three films: “The Green Pastures” (Warner Bros. Pictures; Dir. Marc Connelly and William Keighley), “The Truman Show” (Paramount Pictures: Dir. Peter Weir), “The Legend of Bagger Vance” (20^th Century Fox / Deamworks; Dir. Robert Redford).]

_____.  “Spider-Man.” Creative Transformation 11, no.3 (Summer 2002): 24-25.  [A review of “Spider-Man” (Columbia Pictures; Dir. Samuel M. Raimi).]

_____.  “Sin and Salvation.”  Creative Transformation 9, no.4 (Summer 2000): 20-21. [A discussion of “Places in the Heart” (CBS/Fox Film, produced by Arlene Donovan; Starring Sally Fields, John Malkovich, and Danny Glover.]

_____.  “Death and Resurrection.”  Creative Transformation 11, no.1 (Winter 2002): 20-21. [A discussion of “Divided We Fall,” Dir. Jan Hrebejk; Produced by Pavel Borovan, Ondrej Trojan, and Czech Television Productions; Starring Boleslav Polivka, Anna Siskova, and Csongar Kassai.  Czech with English subtitles]

_____.  “The Cosmic Answer.” Creative Transformation 10, no.3 (Summer 2001): 19-20.  [A Discussion of “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” (Dir. Joel Coen; Produced by Ethan Coen; Written by Ethan Coen and Joel Coen; Starring George Clooney, Time Blake Nelson, John Turturro, Chris Thomas King, and Holly Hunter).  Background film included in the discussion is “Sullivan’s Travels.”]