Francey Russell is an assistant professor of philosophy at Barnard College and Columbia University. She works primarily on topics in moral psychology, history of philosophy, and aesthetics.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES
Last Man: On Claire Denis’s “High Life”
"The film is not just about violence, the film is itself violent and the audience suffers this directly." Francey Russell on "High Life."...
Exercises in Self-Destruction: On Paul Schrader’s “First Reformed”
"First Reformed" is a serious exercise in thinking through faith and despair, but at the same time it indulges unabashedly in oneiric pleasures....
Trust and Violence in “Beach Rats”
Francey Russell reviews Eliza Hittman's new film....
The Spirit of Things: On “Personal Shopper”
Francey Russell on the specters that haunt "Personal Shopper."...
An Education: On Barry Jenkins’s “Moonlight”
Francey Russell on Barry Jenkins's coming-of-age film....
Bourne Again: “Jason Bourne” and the Politics of Self-Knowledge
Francey Russell on how "Jason Bourne" doesn't fit in the series....
Precarious Paintings, Precarious Lives: On “Kerry James Marshall: Mastry”
Kerry James Marshall: Mastry, the first museum retrospective of the Chicago artist’s work....
Images to Work With: On the Ethics of Representation in “Son of Saul”
On the Ethics of Representation in "Son of Saul."...
How to Be Together: On Andrew Haigh’s “45 Years”
"45 Years" shows the difficulty of being present with someone you know....
Repetition and Difference: “Two Days, One Night”
The Dardennes' "Two Days, One Night" is animated by a complex conception of human life as both singular and serial....
Kara Walker: A Subtlety at the Domino Sugar Factory
: Kara Walker and the spectacle of spectatorship....
The Unknown Inside
Alain Guiraudie’s "L’inconnu du lac" (“Stranger by the Lake”)...
