Spectres of the Imagination: A Post-Phenomenological Perspective on the Filmic Image and its Uses

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  • Dario Cecchi University of Roma La Sapienza

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.60923/issn.2280-9481/21452

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Derrida, Stiegler, Spectrality of images, Imagination, American Jewish cinema

Abstract

The article reconsiders the joint development of a theory of the moving images by Jacques Derrida and Bernard Stiegler. Their theory highlights the spectrality of moving images, and formulates a hypothesis about its meaning for the filmic experience. This meaning has especially to do with the way imagination elaborates the sense of images flowing on the screen: it is an effect of the work of imagination synthesizing the visual experience, and not a “special effect” added to a special genre of movies. Filmmakers make accordingly specters appear on the screen as a signature of their reflection upon the action of imagination through the filmic narration.

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2025-07-30

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Cecchi, D. (2025). Spectres of the Imagination: A Post-Phenomenological Perspective on the Filmic Image and its Uses: . Cinergie – Il Cinema E Le Altre Arti, 14(27), 61–69. https://doi.org/10.60923/issn.2280-9481/21452

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