Film and Philosophy at CEPPA – WALL·E

We are proud to present the Third Session of Film and Philosophy at CEPPA (aka the CEPPA Film Club). This time we will gather from 16:30 onwards to watch and WALL·E (see trailer here). The discussion will be lead by Emma Holmes and Miguel de la Cal Moreno.

The movie will start SHARP at 17:30.

Here is a suggested reading list:

• Dona Haraway ‘Cyborg Manifesto’ pages 4-14 and 58-66 (https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fictionnownarrativemediaandtheoryinthe21stcentury/manifestly_haraway_—-_a_cyborg_manifesto_science_technology_and_socialist-feminism_in_the_….pdf)
• Interview with writer/director Andrew Stanton (https://www.comingsoon.net/movies/features/45885-wall%C2%95e-writerdirector-andrew-stanton)
• Laura Berlant ‘Slow Death (Sovereignty, Obesity, Lateral Agency)’  (https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/521568)
• Constance Russell et. al. “Fatties Cause Global Warming”: Fat Pedagogy and
  Environmental Education (https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1061815.pdf)
• Daniel Engber ‘Fat-E’ (https://slate.com/technology/2008/07/pixar-s-wall-e-sends-the-wrong-message-about-obesity-and-the-environment.html)
• Kylie Caraway & Brett R. Caraway ‘Representing Ecological Crises in Children’s Media: An Analysis of The Lorax and Wall-E’ (https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.st-andrews.ac.uk/doi/full/10.1080/17524032.2019.1710226?src=recsys)