{"product_id":"thinking-through-cinema-9781405154116","title":"Thinking Through Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe collection brings together a wide range of contributors, including both philosophers and film scholars. All of them address the question of whether philosophy can take the form of, or be articulated through, film.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eA new text for the growing field of philosophy of film, engaging with a variety of questions concerning the relationship between film and art, aesthetics and philosophy.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores a wide variety of forms and periods of film, such as the avant-garde, continental film and popular American cinema, to present diverse answers to this question.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws on a range of films, from the works of Hitchcock to \u003ci\u003eMission: Impossible\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBeing John Malkovich\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePreface\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMurray Smith and Thomas E Wartenberg\u003c\/b\u003e Introduction 1\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eI The Very Idea of Film as Philosophy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaisley Livingston\u003c\/b\u003e These on Cinema as Philosophy 11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas E Wartenberg\u003c\/b\u003e Beyond mere Illustration: How Films Can Be Philosophy 19\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMurray Smith\u003c\/b\u003e Film Art, Argument, and Ambiguity 33\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eII Popular American Film: Entertainment and Enlightenment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRichard Allen\u003c\/b\u003e Hitchcock and Cavell 43\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLester H Hunt\u003c\/b\u003e The Paradox of the Unknown Lover: A Reading of Letter from an Unknown Woman 55\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDan Flory\u003c\/b\u003e Spike Lee and the Sympathetic Racist.' 67\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e Transparency and Twist in Narrative Fiction Film 81\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Mulhall\u003c\/b\u003e The Impersonation of Personality: Film as Philosophy in Mission: Impossible 97\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDaniel Shaw\u003c\/b\u003e On being Philosophical and Being John Malkovich 111\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eChristopher Grau\u003c\/b\u003e eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Morality of Memory 119\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIII: Continental Philosophy, Continental Film\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndras Balint\u003c\/b\u003e Kovacs Sartre, the Philosophy of Nothingness, and the Modern Melodrama 135\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePaul C Santilli\u003c\/b\u003e Cinema and Subjectivity in Krzysztof Kieslowski 147\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKatherine Ince\u003c\/b\u003e Is Sexy Comedy or Tragedy? Directing Desire adn Female Auteurship in the Cinema of Catherine Breillat 157\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIV: Films as \"THEORY\": The Avant -Garde\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJinhee Choi\u003c\/b\u003e Apperception on Display: Structural Films and Philosophy 165\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNoel Carroll\u003c\/b\u003e philosophizing Through the Moving Image: The case of Serene Velocity 173\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrevor Ponech\u003c\/b\u003e The Substance of Cinema 187\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhitney Davis\u003c\/b\u003e The World Rewound: Peter Forgacs's Wittgenstein Tractatus 199\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors 213\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSelected Bibliography 217\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 221\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407887671639,"sku":"9781405154116","price":40.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405154116.jpg?v=1730500857","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/thinking-through-cinema-9781405154116","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}