Shai Biderman, Dr.

• Film-Philosophy
• Philosophy of film and literature
• Popular culture and philosophy
• Aesthetics
• Ethics
• History of philosophy

• Philosophy and cinema of the Coen brothers
• Philosophy and cinema of David Lynch
• Contemporary American Cinema
• The artist and/as a philosopher: film, literature and philosophy
• 20th century culture theories and criticism
• Phenomenology and the cinematic gaze

• Biderman, S. (2008). “Recalling the self: personal identity in total recall”. In S. M. Sanders (Ed.). The philosophy of science fiction film (pp. 39-54). Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky.
• Biderman, S. (2010). “Do not forsake me my darling: Loneliness and solitude in the Westerns”. In J. L. McMahon & B. S. Csaki (Eds.), The Philosophy of the Western (pp. 13-29). Kentucky, Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky.
• Biderman, S., & W. Devlin (2012). “Sartre’s existential analysis of moral dilemmas through Gone Baby Gone”. Film and Philosophy, 6, 70-81.
• Biderman, S. (2014). “Into the Wild (West): Philosophy and Cinematic Mythmaking”. Existenz: An International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics and Arts, 9 (2), 53-62.
• Biderman, S. (2014). “A Night at the Opera of Talmudic Reasoning: The “Jewishness” of Jewish Cinema”. Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image, 4, 14-27.
• Biderman, S. (2015). “Film as Philosophy: the Case of Thought Experiments”. In N. Yaari and E. Rozik (Eds.), Inter-art journey: exploring the common grounds of the arts (pp. 121-136). Brighton ; Chicago, Sussex Academic Press.
• Biderman, S., & I. Lewit (2017). “TV’s Fargo and the Philosophy of the Coen Brothers”. Film and Philosophy 21: 17-30
• Biderman, S. (2017). Truth, reality, and fiction in the documentary of Errol Morris: Refiguring Platonism in epistemology and aesthetics. Existenz: An International Journal in Philosophy, Religion, Politics and Arts, 12(2), 58-64.
• Biderman, S. (2017). “A Touch of Evil: Cinematic Perspectives”. In R. Lazar (Ed.), Talking About Evil, Psychoanalytic, social, and cultural perspectives (pp. 164-180). New York: Routledge.
• Biderman, S. (2021). “A Serious Man as Philosophy: The Elusiveness of Moral Knowledge”. The Palgrave Handbook of Popular Culture as Philosophy. D. K. Johnson ed., Palgrave.
• Biderman, S. (2021). “Between Delight and Discomfort: The Act of Mirroring in the Age of Black Mirror”. Philosophical Reflections on Black Mirror. D. Shaw, K. Marshall and J. Rocha eds., Bloomsbury.
• Biderman, S. and M. Weinman (2022). “Symbiosis, Interruption, and Exchange: Parasite after Serres’s The Parasite”. Parasite: A Philosophical Exploration: On the film Parasite by Bong Joon-Ho. T. Botz-Bornstein and G. Stamatellos eds., Brill.

• Biderman, S., & Devlin, W. (Eds.) (2011). The Philosophy of David Lynch. Kentucky, Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky.
• Biderman, S. & Lewit, I. (Eds.) (2016). Mediamorphosis: Kafka and the Moving Image. London & New York: Wallflower Press (an imprint of Columbia University Press).
• Biderman, S., & Wienman, M. (Eds.). (2019). Plato and the Moving Image. Leiden: Brill.

Biderman, S. (upcoming 2025). The Ethics of the Coen Brothers. McFarland.

• Existentialism
• Phenomenology
• Friedrich Nietzsche
• Franz Kafka
• Film theory
• Jewish cinema
• Humor and cinema