num_pages: 228
description: A series of essays on film and philosophy whose authors - philosophers or film studies experts - write on a wide variety of 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.
language: English
title: Film as Philosophy: Essays in Cinema after Wittgenstein and Cavell
titlecomplete: Film as Philosophy: Essays in Cinema after Wittgenstein and Cavell
genres: Film, Philosophy
ratings_count: 32
publisher: Palgrave Macmillan