Dr. Christine Evans
Film Studies Lecturer Christine Evans is currently working on a book entitled Slavoj Žižek and Film: A Cinematic Ontology and has signed a contract with I.B. Tauris. The book will be forthcoming in 2018, for the series Film Thinks: How Cinema Inspires Writers and Thinkers (series eds. Lúcia Nagib and Tiago de Luca). She has spent the past several years researching a project on the externality of thought in cinema. Planning to follow these projects with a close reading of André Bazin’s work on love in cinema, she argues that Bazin positions love as an alternative mode that radicalizes epistemology.
Christine Evans holds a Ph.D in Film Studies from The University of Kent, Canterbury, where her dissertation explored how Slavoj Žižek’s work on love and universality has influenced film theory and film philosophy. Her research focuses on the intersections between film theory, continental philosophy, Lacanian psychoanalysis, and love. She has published primarily on cinema as it relates to Lacanian psychoanalytic theory, the work of Slavoj Žižek, and philosophical conceptions of love. She has also published and presented work on a breadth of interdisciplinary topics as varied as tautology and Hegel, David Cronenberg’s male melodramas and shame, Stella Dallas and liberal humanism, thought in Ron Howard’s films, love and Samuel Barber’s Concerto for Violin and Orchestra, Søren Kierkegaard and neighbour love, queerness and homosociality, popular music and universality, and economies of worth and waste.
