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Thinking Through Cinema: Film as Philosophy
by Murray (edt) Smith

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Publisher Comments:

The collection brings together a wide range of contributors, including both philosophers and film scholars. All of them address the question of whether philosophy can take the form of, or be articulated through, film. A new text for the growing field of philosophy of film, engaging with a variety of questions concerning the relationship between film and art, aesthetics and philosophy. Explores a wide variety of forms and periods of film, such as the avant-garde, continental film and popular American cinema, to present diverse answers to this question. Draws on a range of films, from the works of Hitchcock to "Mission: Impossible "and "Being John Malkovich,"

Book News Annotation:

Including works by both film scholars and philosophers, Smith (film studies, U. of Kent, UK) and Wartenberg (philosophy, Mount Holyoke U., US) present seventeen papers take up the question of whether philosophy can take the form of, or be articulated through, film. In sections covering American, European, and avant-garde cinemas, the contributors display a wide range of approaches, topical concerns, and conclusions. Specific topics include transparency and twist in narrative fiction film, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the morality of memory, Sartre's philosophy of nothingness and the modern melodrama, cinema and subjectivity in Krzysztof Kieslowski, and directing desire and female auteurship in the cinema of Catherine Breillat. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Synopsis:

Over the last decade the philosophy of film has emerged as a distinctivefield within aesthetics, engaging with a variety of questions concerningthe relationship between film and art. One question in particularhas become very prominent in philosophical discussions of film: to what extent can film-or individual films-act as a vehicle of or forum for philosophy itself? This is the domain of "film as philosophy," which forms the focus of this volume. The collection brings together a wide range of contributors, including both philosophers and film scholars. All of them address the question of whether philosophy can take the form of, or be articulated through, film. The contributors canvas a wide variety of forms and periods of film as they present diverse answers to this question.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781405154116
Subtitle:
Film as Philosophy
Author:
Smith, Murray (edt)
Revised:
Smith, Murray
Editor:
Wartenberg, Thomas E.
Editor:
Smith, Murray
Author:
Smith, Deborah Ed. Steven Ed. J.B. Ed. J
Author:
Smith, Murray
Author:
Wartenberg, Thomas
Actor:
Wartenberg, Thomas
Publisher:
Blackwell Publishers
Subject:
Mind & Body
Subject:
Motion pictures
Subject:
Film & Video - General
Copyright:
2006
Publication Date:
March 2006
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Y
Pages:
222
Dimensions:
10.00x7.08x.49 in. .90 lbs.
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