John Caruana

Media & Culture

DepartmentPhilosophy (Toronto Metropolitan University)

Areas of Expertisephenomenology; Frankfurt School; psychoanalysis; post-structuralism; European cinema; theories of the sacred

https://www.torontomu.ca/philosophy/faculty-staff/caruana-john/

John Caruana's research interestes include: Contemporary European Philosophy; Philosophy of Film; Philosophy of Religion; Existentialism; Social and Political Thought.

Recent publications:

Caruana, J. (2018). Repetition and belief: A Kierkegaardian reading of Malick’s The Tree of Life. In Full: In (pp. 69-86) Caruana (Vol. 1–Book, Section, p. 69).

Caruana, J. (2021). The Subject in Crisis: Kristeva on Love, Faith, and Nihilism. In D. Enns & A. Calcagno (Eds.), Thinking About Love (Vol. 1–Book, Section, pp. 46–60). Penn State University Press.

Caruana, J., & Cauchi, M. (2018a). Immanent frames: Postsecular cinema between Malick and von Trier. State University of New York Press.

Sample of supervised ComCult projects:

2015 - Zorianna Zurba; Dissertation: Funny feelings: taking love to the cinema with Woody Allen

2011 - Michael Bacal; Thesis: A Moral Jester? David Foster Wallace and Infinite Jest's Hidden Moral Heart

2009 - James Forbes; Thesis: Being and Technics: Humans, Hybrids and the Ontology of Machines

ComCult Teaching Activities

CC 8831 Theorizing the Sacred
CC 8836 Selected Topics in Media and Culture - Film and Philosophy