Analele Universităţii „Ovidius” din Constanţa – Seria Ştiinţe Politice Annals of the „Ovidius” University of Constanţa – Political Science Series Volume 7 (2018): 217-225 217 BOOK REVIEWS Received: November 7, 2018 Accepted for publication: November 30, 2018 VIORELLA MANOLACHE, POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN MOTION .MKV (NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE: CAMBRIDGE SCHOLARS PUBLISHING, 2017), 233 PP. ISBN (10): 1-5275-0392-5 ISBN (13): 978-1-5275-0392-2 by Luiza-Maria Filimon  iorella Manolache’s Political Philosophy in Motion *.mkv is an ambitious epistemological endeavor that covers the relation between film and political philosophy as part of The Academy of Romanian Scientists’ Research Project no. 12 – “Philosophy of Science, Mind and Communication: Knowledge, Awareness, Mental, Dialogical Being, Polyphony, Freedom of Expression, Meaning, Interpretation”. Across the five chapters of the book, the author examines no less than 99 visual productions (films, TV shows, documentaries) mainly from the U.S. and Europe by connecting them to an eclectic set of philosophical stances. The author’s access to a vast philosophical apparatus, running the entire who’s who gamut from Arendt to Žižek, Chomsky to Sontag, Eco to Ricœur, Derrida to Lyotard, or from Foucault to Habermas – just to name a few – enables her to create in the words of Marina Roman, “a conceptual template” which seeks to satisfy two main purposes: on the one hand, to update the contemporary history of cinema in light of a multiplicity of philosophical archaeologies, and on the other, to excavate and rummage through this history, in order to uncover the very “isotopes” at the core of political philosophy 1 . While – as Paisley Livingston argues – the idea of treating “cinema as philosophy” might be hard to embrace, the reader / viewer might be more amenable to consider that cinema plays a “role in the development of philosophical insight or knowledge” 2 . Mary M. Litch and Amy  Independent researcher. E-mail: luiza.filimon@gmail.com. 1 Marina Roman, “Philosophy/Cinema: “Beyond Any Discipline””, in Viorella Manolache, Political Philosophy in Motion .mkv (Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017), xxvii. 2 Paisley Livingston, Cinema, Philosophy, Bergman. On Film as Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009), 11. See also the much-quoted essay by Walter Benjamin, “The Work of Art in the Age of Its Techonological Reproducibility”, trans. Edmon Jephcott and Harry Zohn, in Selected Writings Volume 3: 1935-1938 (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 2002). V