EVAN WILLIAM CAMERON (Screenwriting Area Head) Associate Professor BA (Knox), MSc (Boston), PhD (Boston) ewc@yorku.ca

Professor Cameron has taught screenwriting, design and production in Canada, England and the United States, and was for ten years head of a prize-winning educational, documentary and anthropological film company. Two of his students have won Academy Awards, two others Academy Award nominations and three others Student Academy Awards. Cross-appointed to the graduate programmes in Philosophy and in Cultural Studies, he has published in both film and philosophy, exploring the historical and philosophical roots of classical film theory. An overview of his philosophical predilections may be found in the invited essay "Filmmaking, Logic and the Historical Reconstruction of the World", Film & Philosophy II (1995, pp. 88-104).

 

Research Interests:

With appointments to the graduate programs in Film & Video, Cultural Studies, and Philosophy, Professor Cameron has published widely in both film and philosophy, pondering especially the historical and philosophical roots of screenwriting and classical film theory. His interests focus upon the intersection of filmmaking and philosophy, considering from an advanced historical and philosophical point of view how, when and why our working conceptions of screenwriting have evolved as they have, incorporating an increasingly severe critique of a family of common presumptions concerning the logic of identifying, negating and quantifying.

 

Selected Publications:

"Spengler's List: Screenwriting, the Wilderness and the Civilizing Death of the Arts", Journal of Arts Management, Law and Society, 24, Number 2 (Summer 1994). 174-184.

"Kant's Station; the Lumières' Train: Seeing Things by Means of Film". Canadian Journal of Film Studies, 1, Number 1 (1990). 36-56.