Kate Rennebohm

Kate Rennebohm is a PhD candidate in Harvard's Film and Visual Studies program. Her doctoral thesis, “Ethical Re-vision,” argues for the dramatic, but un-theorized, influence of cinema upon ethical thinking and philosophy. Drawing from the history of philosophy and the development of cinema, this dissertation illuminates how cinema has reconceptualized life as “reviewable,” and how this, in turn, has contributed to the formation of a positive program within ethical thought (both vernacular and philosophical), specific to the 20th century – a program that values the ability to see and experience something anew. Rennebohm has written for Cinema Scope, The Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Film & History, Offscreen and Synoptique, recently co-founded the Society for Cinema and Media Studies’ Film Philosophy Scholarly Interest Group, and has received the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research Grant for both her Doctorate and Masters.