num_pages: 680
description: The first collection of its kind The Continental Philosophy of Film Reader is the essential anthology of writings by continental philosophers on cinema representing the last century of film-making and thinking about film as well as all of the major schools of Continental thought: phenomenology and existentialism Marxism and critical theory semiotics and hermeneutics psychoanalysis and postmodernism. Included here are not only the classic texts in continental philosophy of film from Benjamin's The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction to extracts of Deleuze's Cinema and Barthes's Mythologies  but also the earliest works of Continental philosophy of film from thinkers such as Georg Lukcs and little-read gems by philosophical giants such as Sartre and Beauvoir.The book demonstrates both the philosophical significance of these thinkers' ideas about film as well their influence on filmmakers in Europe and across the globe. In addition however this wide-ranging collection also teaches us how important film is to the last century of European philosophical thought. Almost every major continental European thinker of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries has had something to say-sometimes quite a lot to say-about cinema: as an art form as a social or political phenomenon as a linguistic device and conveyor of information as a projection of our fears and desires as a site for oppression and resistance or as a model on the basis of which some of us at least learn how to live.Purpose built for classroom use with pedagogical features introducing and contextualizing the extracts this reader is an indispensable tool for students and researchers in philosophy of film film studies and the history of cinema.
language: English
title: The Continental Philosophy of Film Reader
publisher: Bloomsbury Academic