This course explores how that is also true of film.
Film is a peculiar phenomenon in many ways .
It's the most powerful illusionistic medium yet invented, possessing the ability to mold our beliefs, desires, and fears, in some ways even our very identities, in accordance with its images. And its social status is interestingly ambiguous. Required texts 1. Cynthia A. Freeland and Thomas E Wartenberg, eds., Philosophy and Film 2. Xerox packets which will be available at different points in the semester.