ABSTRACT

In previous chapters, I have examined a number of different techniques that films have employed to screen philosophy. In developing my argument, I made reference mainly to fiction films and often only to popular fiction films at that. In the present chapter, I focus upon a very different type of film, the structural avant-garde film. One reason for this is that film scholars as well as filmmakers have seen these films as having unique philosophical significance. We therefore need to examine whether this film genre provides another avenue that films use in order to do philosophy.