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9781403997951 English 1403997950 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., This is a unique volume, as its attempt is to treat films as philosophy, rather than to speak of films only in relation to philosophy, thereby subjugating the film in question to pre-existing theories, be they psychoanalytic, feminist or cognitive. This volume seeks to develop for the first time the set of arguments and readings championed by those writers on film who believe that films can think; that they can, indeed, perhaps function as philosophy. 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 topic., 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.
9781403997951 English 1403997950 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., This is a unique volume, as its attempt is to treat films as philosophy, rather than to speak of films only in relation to philosophy, thereby subjugating the film in question to pre-existing theories, be they psychoanalytic, feminist or cognitive. This volume seeks to develop for the first time the set of arguments and readings championed by those writers on film who believe that films can think; that they can, indeed, perhaps function as philosophy. 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 topic., 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.