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Title

Thinking through cinema : film as philosophy / edited by Murray Smith and Thomas E. Wartenberg.

Publication

Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2006.

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Additional Authors

• Smith, Murray, 1962-
• Wartenberg, Thomas E.

Description

222 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

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.

Uniform Title

Journal of aesthetics and art criticism.

Subject

Motion pictures

Genre/Form

• Motion pictures
• Films.

Note

• "Originally published as the Journal of aesthetics and art criticism, vol. 64:1 (Winter 2006) on behalf of the American Society for Aesthetics"--Pref.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Introduction / Murray Smith and Thomas E. Wartenberg -- Theses on cinema as philosophy / Paisley Livingston -- Beyond mere illustration: how films can be philosophy / Thomas E. Wartenberg -- Fil art, argument, and ambiguity / Murray Smith -- Hitchcock and Cavell / Richard Allen -- The paradox of the unknown lover: a reading of "Letter from an Unknown Woman" / Lester H. Hunt -- Spike Lee and the sympathetic racist / Dan Flory -- Transparency and twist in narrative fiction film / George Wilson -- The impersonation of personality: film as philosophy in "Mission Impossible" / Stephen Mulhall -- On being philosophical and "Being John Malkovich" / Daniel Shaw -- "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and the morality of memory / Christopher Grau -- Satre, the philosophy of nothingness, and the modern melodrama / András Bálint Kovács -- Cinema and subjectivity in Krzysztof Kieslowski / Paul C. Santilli -- Is sex comedy or tragedy? Directing desire and female auteurship in the cinema of Catherine Breillat / Katerine Ince -- Apperception on display: structural films and philosophy / Jinhee Choi -- Philosophizing through the moving image: the case of "Serene Velocity" / Noël Carroll -- The substance of cinema / Trevor Ponech -- The world rewound: Peter Forgác's "Wittgenstein Tractatus" / Whitney Davis.

ISBN

• 9781405154116
• 140515411X

LCCN

^^2006279523

OCLC

70911254

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library