New philosophies of film
Subtitle: thinking images
By: Robert Sinnerbrink
Publisher: Continuum International Pub. Group; Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9781441122575; 9781441153432
Subjects: Motion pictures; Philosophy
Description: The relationship between film and philosophy has become a topic of intense intellectual interest. But how should we understand this relationship? Can philosophy renew our understanding of film? This title explores these questions in relation to both analytic and Continental philosophies of film.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes filmography.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: why did philosophy go to the movies?; title: The analytic-cognitivist turn. The empire strikes back: critiques of "grand theory"; title: The rules of the game: new ontologies of film; title: Adaptation: philosophical approaches to narrative; title: From cognitivism to film-philosophy. A.I.: cognitivism goes to the movies; title: Bande à part: Deleuze and Cavell as film-philosophers; title: Scenes from a marriage: film as philosophy; title: Cinematic thinking. Hollywood in trouble: David Lynch's Inland empire; title: "Chaos reigns": anti-cognitivism in Lars von trier's Antichrist; title: Song of the earth: cinematic romanticism in Malick's The new world; title: Coda: "the six most beautiful minutes in the history of cinema".