Derrida Screenplay and Essays on the Film

"What if someone came along who changed not the way you think about everything, but everything about the way you think?" That question is the path that leads us through Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering Kofman's award-winning "Derrida." A film "about" the late philosopher and his work is more than a challenge, but Dick and Ziering Kofman's portrait of the philosopher is a remarkable achievement. Witty and affectionate, while repeatedly exploring the nature of cinema, identity, and even of questions themselves, DERRIDA follows Jacques Derrida from his work to his home as the filmmakers search for the "Derrida" that can be captured on film.

This beautifully produced oversize volume presents the complete text of "Derrida," along with an extensive interview with Jacques Derrida and introductory essays by the filmmakers and by Nicholas Royle.

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Geoffrey Hartman Foreword
Nicholas Royle Blind Cinema
Amy Ziering Kofman Making DERRIDA - An Impression Or..
Kirby Dick Resting on the Edge of an Impossible Confidence
Gil Kofman (film to text adaptation) DERRIDA-Screenplay
Jacques Derrida, Kirby Dick, Amy Ziering Kofman Derrida on DERRIDA - Q and A with Jacques Derrida
Jacques Derrida and Kristine McKenna Interview
Interview with Filmmakers
Appendix: Poster, End Credits, Filmography

Kirby Dick is an independent filmmaker. Amy Ziering Kofman, also a filmmaker, runs Jane Doe Films and studied with Jacques Derrida at Yale and in Paris. Jacques Derrida was born in Algeria in 1930; he died in France in 2004.