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.
Table of Contents
Reviews
I. The very idea of film as philosophy
Theses on cinema as philosophy / Paisley Livingston
Beyond Mere illustration : how films can be philosophy / Thomas E. Wartenberg
Film art, argument, and ambiguity / Murray Smith
II. Popular American film : entertainment and enlightenment
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
III. Continental philosophy, continental film
Sartre, the philosophy of nothingness, and the modern melodrama / Andras Balint Kovacs
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 / Katherine Ince
Apperception on display : structural films and philosophy / Jinhee Choi
Philosophizing through the moving image : the case of Serene velocity / Noel Carroll
The substance of cinema / Trevor Ponech
The world rewound : Peter Forgacs's Wittgenstein Tractatus / Whitney Davis.
Cynthia Freeland in The Philosophical Review Vol. 109, No. 1 (Jan., 2000), pp. 144-147. link