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Film as Philosophy: Essays in Cinema After Wittgenstein and Cavell
by Rupert J. Read

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Publisher Comments:

A series of essays on film and philosophy whose authors - philosophers or film studies experts - write on a wide variety of films: classic Hollywood comedies, war films, Eastern European art films, science fiction, showing how film and watching it can not only illuminate philosophy but, in an important sense, be doing philosophy. The book is crowned with an interview with Wittgensteinian philosopher Stanley Cavell, discussing his interests in philosophy and in film and how they can come together.

Synopsis:

This unique volume treats films as philosophy, rather than speaking of films only in relation to philosophy and subjugating the film in question to pre-existing theories. Bringing together essays from some of the leading scholars in the field, the book also features an interview with Stanley Cavell in which he explains his most recent thinking on the belief that films can think; that they can, indeed, function as philosophy.
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Table of Contents

List of Plates * Preface * Notes on Contributors * Introduction I: A Philosopher Goes to the Cinema; J.Goodenough * Introduction II: What Theory of Film do Wittgenstein and Cavell Have?; R.Read * PART I: ESSAYS * Cogito Ergo Film: Plato, Descartes and Fight Club; N.Bauer * In Space No-one can Hear you Scream; S.Mulhall * Memento: A Philosophical Investigation; P.Hutchinson & R.Read * The Everydayness of Don Giovanni; S.Glendinning * Silent Dialogue: Philosophizing with Jan Svankmajer; D.Rudrum * Calm: On Terence Malik's The Thin Red Line; S.Critchley * Habitual Remarriage: The Ends of Happiness in The Palm Beach Story; S.Klawans * PART II: INTERVIEW * What Becomes of Thinking on Film?: Stanley Cavell in Conversation with Andrew Klevan * Bibliography * Index
List of Plates * Preface * Notes on Contributors * Introduction I: A Philosopher Goes to the Cinema; J.Goodenough * Introduction II: What Theory of Film do Wittgenstein and Cavell Have?; R.Read * PART I: ESSAYS * Cogito Ergo Film: Plato, Descartes and Fight Club; N.Bauer * In Space No-one can Hear you Scream; S.Mulhall * Memento: A Philosophical Investigation; P.Hutchinson & R.Read * The Everydayness of Don Giovanni; S.Glendinning * Silent Dialogue: Philosophizing with Jan Svankmajer; D.Rudrum * Calm: On Terence Malik's The Thin Red Line; S.Critchley * Habitual Remarriage: The Ends of Happiness in The Palm Beach Story; S.Klawans * PART II: INTERVIEW * What Becomes of Thinking on Film?: Stanley Cavell in Conversation with Andrew Klevan * Bibliography * Index

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Product Details

ISBN:
9781403997951
Subtitle:
Essays in Cinema After Wittgenstein and Cavell
Editor:
Goodenough, Jerry; Read, Rupert
Editor:
Read, Rupert J.
Editor:
Read, Rupert; Goodenough, Jerry
Editor:
Goodenough, Jerry; Read, Rupert
Editor:
Goodenough, Jerry
Editor:
Goodenough, Jerry
Publisher:
Libri
Subject:
Philosophy
Subject:
Modern
Subject:
Motion pictures
Subject:
History & Surveys - Modern
Subject:
Film & Video - History & Criticism
Publication Date:
November 2005
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
219
Dimensions:
8.52x5.84x.49 in. .77 lbs.
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