By Dr Lisa Trahair

Books

Trahair LM, 2007, The Comedy of Philosophy: Sense and Nonsense in Early Cinematic Slapstick, State University of New York Press, Albany, USA

Book Chapters

Gray J; Trahair L, 2022, 'Introduction', in Trahair L; Gray J (ed.), Second Nature Comic Performance and Philosophy, Rowman & Littlefield, London, pp. ix - xxxiii, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786615091/Second-Nature-Comic-Performance-and-Philosophy

Trahair L, 2022, 'Living in the Doll House: Cavell, Comedy and The Ladies Man', in Gray J; Trahair L (ed.), Second Nature Comic Performance and Philosophy, Rowman & Littlefield, pp. 133 - 165, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786615091/Second-Nature-Comic-Performance-and-Philosophy

Trahair L, 2020, 'Stoicism, Causality, Divine Providence and Comedy in Buster Keaton's The General', in Moder G; Mascat JMH (ed.), The Object of Comedy: Philosophies and Performances, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 163 - 189, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27742-0_10

Trahair LM, 2017, 'Aberrant Movement and Somatography in the Hysterical Films of Roméo Bosetti', in Woodward A; Jones G (ed.), Acinemas: Lyotard's Philosophy of Film, Edinburgh University Press, pp. 180 - 180

Trahair L, 2014, 'JEAN-FRANÇOIS LYOTARD', in Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers, pp. 222 - 232, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315711607-23

Trahair LM, 2012, 'Godard and Ranciere: Automatism, Montage, Thinking', in Ross A; Deranty J-P (ed.), Jacques Ranciere and the Contemporary Scene: The Philosophy of Radical Equality, Continuum, London, pp. 43 - 66

Trahair LM, 2011, ''The General (C. Bruckman, B. Keaton, 1926)'', in Gandini L (ed.), Is Cinema Americano Attraverso I Film, Carocci, Rome, pp. 25 - 39

Trahair LM, 2009, 'Jean-Francois Lyotard', in Colman F (ed.), Film, Theory and Philosophy: The Key Thinkers, Acumen, Durham, pp. 222 - 232

During LJ; Trahair LM, 2008, 'Film Theory', in Hadfield A; Boxall P; Smith L; Surprenant C (ed.), The Year`s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 166 - 195

Trahair LM, 2007, 'Film Theory', in Hadfield A; Boxall P; Smith L; Surprenant C (ed.), Year S Work In Critical and Cultural Theory, Oxford University Press, Oxford, pp. 165 - 185

Trahair LM, 1999, 'Fool`s gold: metamorphosis in Buster Keaton`s Sherlock, Jr.', in Falling for you: essays on cinema and performance, Power Publications, Sydney, Australia, pp. 209 - 244

Trahair LM, 1991, 'For the Noise of a Fly', in The Illusion of Life: Essays on Animation, Power Publications, Sydney, pp. 182 - 208

Edited Books

Trahair L, (ed.), 2022, Second Nature: Comic Performance and Philosophy, Rowman & Littlefield, London, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781786615091/Second-Nature-Comic-Performance-and-Philosophy

Journal articles

Trahair L, 2016, 'Anywhere or Not at All: Philosophy of Contemporary Art', CRITICAL INQUIRY, 42, pp. 415 - 416, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/684384

Trahair L, 2016, 'Belief in this world: The dardenne brothers' the son and Søren Kierkegaard's fear and trembling', Sub-Stance, 45, pp. 98 - 119, http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/ss.45.3.98

Sinnerbrink R; Trahair L, 2016, 'Film and/as ethics', Sub-Stance, 45, pp. 3 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.3368/ss.45.3.3

Sinnerbrink R; Trahair L, 2016, 'Introduction: Film and / as Ethics', SubStance, 45, pp. 3 - 15, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/sub.2016.0025

Trahair L, 2014, 'Being on the Outside: Cinematic Automatism in Stanley Cavell'sThe World Viewed', Film-Philosophy, 18, pp. 128 - 146, http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/film.2014.0009

Trahair LM, 2014, 'Being on the Outside: Cinematic Automatism in Stanley Cavell’s The World Viewed', Film-Philosophy, 18, pp. 128 - 146, http://www.film-philosophy.com/index.php/f-p/article/view/1034

Trahair LM; Sinnerbrink R, 2013, 'Editorial Introduction: Thinking cinematically before Deleuze', Screening the Past

Trahair LM, 2013, 'Serious Film: Cavell, Automatism and Michael Haneke’s Caché', Screening the Past, http://www.screeningthepast.com/

Trahair LM, 2012, 'Belief in Cinema: Jean-Luc Godard's Je vous salue, Marie and the Pedagogy of Images', Angelaki, 17, pp. 193 - 207

During LJ; Trahair LM, 2012, 'Editorial Introduction: Belief in Cinema: Revisiting themes from Bazin', Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 17, pp. 1 - 8, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0969725X.2012.747326

Trahair LM, 2009, 'Dialektika rövidre zárva: elbeszélés és burleszk Buster Keaton mozijában', Apertúra

Dawkins R, 2006, '18 * Film Theory', The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 14, pp. 311 - 335, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ywcct/mbl018

Dawkins RH; Ford HC; Trahair LM, 2006, 'Film Theory', Year S Work In Critical and Cultural Theory, 14, pp. 311 - 335

Trahair LM, 2005, 'Figural vision: Freud, Lyotard and early cinematic comedy', Screen, 46, pp. 175 - 193

Trahair LM, 2004, 'Comedy and Beyond: on Geoff King`s Film Comedy', Film-Philosophy, 8, pp. On-line

Trahair LM, 2004, 'The narrative machine: Buster Keaton`s cinematic comedy, Deleuze`s recursion function and the operational aesthetic', Senses of Cinema, 33, pp. on-line journal

Trahair LM, 2003, 'Senses of Visuality: Sardines, Surveillance and Cinema', Theory and Event, 7

Trahair LM, 2002, 'A taste for murder: aesthetics in the Silence of the Lambs', New Formations, 47, pp. 155 - 170

Trahair LM, 2002, 'Short-circuiting the dialectic: narrative and slapstick in the cinema of Buster Keaton.', Narrative, 10, pp. 307 - 325

Trahair LM, 2002, 'The ghost in the machine: the comedy of technology in the cinema of Buster Keaton', The South Atlantic Quarterly, 101, pp. 573 - 588

Trahair LM, 2001, 'The comedy of philosophy Bataille. Hegel and Derrida', Angelaki - Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 6, pp. 155 - 169

Conference Papers

Trahair LM, 2005, 'Lights, Camera, Editing: Understanding Film', in English Association English Teachers` Conference 2005, University of Sydney, NSW, presented at English Association English Teachers` Conference 2005, University of Sydney, NSW, 05 March 2005

Other

Trahair LM; Sinnerbrink R (ed.), 2016, Cinematic Thinking: Film and/as Ethics, , http://sub.uwpress.org/content/45/3.toc

Trahair LM, 2015, Lisa Trahair Reviews Peter Osborne's Anywhere or Not at All, University of Chicago Press, , http://criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/lisa_trahair_reviews_peter_osbornes_anywhere_or_not_at_all/

Trahair LM; Sinnerbrink R (ed.), 2013, Screening the Past: Special Dossier: Cinematic Thinking, The Screening the Past Group, Melbourne, , http://www.screeningthepast.com/

Trahair LM; During L (ed.), 2012, Angelaki Special Issue: Belief in Cinema: Themes after André Bazin, Taylor & Francis, UK,

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