In Part One, Stanley Cavell, Karen Hanson, Noel Carroll and George Wilson address large questions about the relations between film and philosophy. Part Three contains essays that aim at a significant level of engagement with the details of individual films, include Persona, Europa Europa, Malcolm X, Do the Right Thing , and 2001 . This book will be a significant resource to philosophers, film theorists, teachers, and all general readers with an interest in film. Philosophers offer breadth, careful argumentation, new questions, challenges about basic assumptions, and diverse traditional backgrounds to cinema studies. The field of philosophy of film is a young one, and this volume will mark an important step in its maturation.
Philosophy brings a unique and valuable new perspective to film studies.
Philosophy of Film is a wide-ranging collection of essays that examine the film medium, film genres, and selected individual films. This book will be a valuable resource to philosophers and all readers with a serious interest in film studies.