Brian Price works at the intersection of film and philosophy. He is especially interested in the aesthetic dimension of moral and political philosophy, particularly as these modes of inquiry are expanded by the varied forms of the moving image, both avant-garde and popular, and by the history of film theory. He has also worked extensively on questions about ontology, color, categorization, French cinema, avant-garde film, and the history of film theory.
Price is Professor and Chair of the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto Mississauga and Professor of Cinema Studies in the Graduate Faculty, Cinema Studies Institute. He is a founding editor of World Picture (alongside John David Rhodes and Meghan Sutherland) and serves as Series Editor for Superimpositions: Philosophy and the Moving Image (Northwestern University Press).
He is the author of A Theory of Regret (Duke University Press, 2017) and Neither God nor Master: Robert Bresson and Radical Politics (University of Minnesota Press, 2011), and is currently completing a book entitled Assayas and Political Seriousness. He has also co-edited two volumes, On Michael Haneke (Wayne State University Press, 2010) and Color, the Film Reader (Routledge, 2006).
His current research projects include a theory of shame and the contingency of norms, an inquiry into the relation between value and wonder, and a study of the aesthetic dimension of political will.
