ABSTRACT
This volume collects twenty original essays on the philosophy of film. It uniquely brings together scholars working across a range of philosophical traditions and academic disciplines to broaden and advance debates on film and philosophy. The book includes contributions from a number of prominent philosophers of film including Noël Carroll, Chris Falzon, Deborah Knight, Paisley Livingston, Robert Sinnerbrink, Malcolm Turvey, and Thomas Wartenberg.
While the topics explored by the contributors are diverse, there are a number of thematic threads that connect them. Overall, the book seeks to bridge analytic and continental approaches to philosophy of film in fruitful ways. Moving to the individual essays, the first two sections offer novel takes on the philosophical value and the nature of film. The next section focuses on the film-as-philosophy debate. Section IV covers cinematic experience, while Section V includes interpretations of individual films that touch on questions of artificial intelligence, race and film, and cinema’s biopolitical potential. Finally, the last section proposes new avenues for future research on the moving image beyond film.
This book will appeal to a broad range of scholars working in film studies, theory, and philosophy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|69 pages
The Nature of Film
chapter 2|23 pages
The World Viewed and the World Lived
part II|78 pages
The Film as Philosophy Debate
chapter 7|19 pages
Are There Definite Objections to Film as Philosophy?
part III|49 pages
The Philosophical Value of Film
part IV|57 pages
Cinematic Experience
part V|51 pages
Interpreting Cinematic Works
chapter 17|18 pages
Transnational Biopolitical Motives in Postmodern Cinema
part VI|57 pages
Further Debates