ABSTRACT

Examines the overlap between film and philosophy in three distinct ways: epistemological issues in film-making and viewing; aesthetic theory and film; and film as a medium of philosophical expression.

chapter |27 pages

Introduction

On the Very Idea of a Philosophy of the Film: Casablanca

part 1|109 pages

Movies as a Philosophical Problem

chapter 1|13 pages

Knowledge and Existence

chapter 2|12 pages

Plato and the Cave

chapter 4|72 pages

Films and Academic Philosophy

part 2|108 pages

Movies as an Aesthetic Problem

chapter 5|9 pages

Art and Science

chapter 6|14 pages

Aesthetics and Essentialism

chapter 7|56 pages

Arguments Against Films as Art

chapter 8|27 pages

Films as Art

part 3|106 pages

Philosophical Problems on Film

chapter 9|4 pages

Philosophy

chapter 10|6 pages

Popular Philosophy

chapter 11|8 pages

On Interpretation

chapter 12|28 pages

Citizen Kane and the Essence of a Person

chapter 13|13 pages

Rashomon: Is Truth Relative?

chapter 14|22 pages

Persona: The Person as a Mask