"Why might interdependence, the idea that we are made up of our relations, be horrifying? Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence argues that philosophy can outline the contours of the dark spectre, and that film can shine a light on its shadowy details, together revealing a horror of relations"--.

• Cover
• Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence
• Philosophy, Film, and the Dark Side of Interdependence
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Foreword
  • Cinema as Affective Entanglement
  • Fires, Darkness, and Psychic Forces
  • Conclusion
  • References
• Introduction
  • Works Cited
• Familial Relations
• Chapter 1
• Love and Horror
  • Bong Joon-Ho and Mother
  • Lee Chang-Dong and Poetry
  • Caring, Memory, and Morality
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
• Chapter 2
• Predatory Masculinity and Domestic Violence in Charles Laughton’s The Night of the Hunter
  • Harry Powell and the Logic of Domestic Predation
  • The Prehistory of Predatory Masculinity
  • Contesting Domestic Predation
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
• Chapter 3
• Will God Forgive Us?
  • Transcendental Style
  • Visual Flatness: The World of First Reformed
  • Will God Forgive Us? The Moment of Disparity
  • Leaning on the Everlasting Arms: The Moment of Stasis
  • Luther and the Hell of Interdependence
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
• Social-Political Relations
• Chapter 4
• The Dark Night of Ecological Despair
  • Where First Reformed and Philosophy Meet
  • Disillusionment with an Inconvenient Truth
  • Interdependence Turns Dark
  • A Radical Response (and a Divine Interruption)
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
• Chapter 5
• The Horror of Interdependence
  • The Monstrous Others of Speculative Horror and Psychoanalysis
  • Climate Migration Anxiety and the Horror of Interdependence
  • Works Cited
• Chapter 6
• Dissecting the Corrupted Body Politic
  • It Comes at Night: A Brief Synopsis
  • Hobbes’s Political Philosophy: A Brief Introduction
  • Fear, Dependency, and Hobbes
  • A Matter of Relations: The Horror of Relations
  • Hobbes’s Body Horror: A Brief Appraisal of the Skin
  • Hobbes’s Body Politic: Concord and Union, or, Flesh and the Body as a Whole
  • Hobbes’s Body Politic: Panopticism and Eyes in the Night
  • The Failure of Relations: Conclusions
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
• Chapter 7
• The Danger of Ecological and Economic Interdependence in the Films of Cormac McCarthy
  • Neoliberal Interdependence in No Country for Old Men
  • How Shall We Defend the Human? The Anti-Economic Logic of The Road
  • Notes
  • Work Cited
• Techno-Ecological Relations
• Chapter 8
• When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth
  • A Roar in the Distance
  • “Life, Uh, Finds a Way”: The Hubris of Being above Nature
  • We Have an Asset Out of Containment, Again
  • Nothing Is Natural Here: Faking, Then Forgetting Nature
  • “Consumers Want Them Bigger, Louder, More Teeth”
  • Conclusion: Not above, but Working within Nature
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
• Chapter 9
• Weird Ecologies and the Uncanny in The Happening
  • The Happening
  • Act I: The Terror of Terrorism
  • Act II: Madness and Plant Defense
  • Interlude
  • Act Three: The Lonesome Woman
  • Conclusion
  • Note
  • Works Cited
• Chapter 10
• Resident Evil, the Zomborg, and the Dark Side of Interdependence
  • Zombies, Virality, and Biotechnology
  • What’s at Stake
  • Dark Interdependence
  • A Glimmer of Hope
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
• Chapter 11
• When the Flame Goes Out
  • The Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness
  • The Horror of Connected Consciousness
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation
  • Star Trek: Voyager
  • The Strain
  • Rick and Morty
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
• Conclusion
  • Works Cited
• Coda
  • Two Examples: Safe (Haynes 1995) and “Hated in the Nation” (Black Mirror S3 E6)
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
• Index
• About the Contributors