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Thinking Film
Philosophy at the Movies
Edited by Richard Kearney and M. E. Littlejohn
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Hailed as one of America's original art forms, film has the distinctive character of crossing high and low art. But film has done more than this. According to American philosopher Stanley Cavell, film was also a place where America in the 1930s and 1940s did its thinking, a tradition that was taken up and enriched throughout world cinema. Can film indeed think? That is, can film do the work of philosophy?
Following Cavell's lead to think along the tear of the analytic-continental traditions, this book draws from both sides of the philosophical divide to reflect on this question. Spanning generations and disciplines, pondering everything from art house classics to mainstream blockbusters, Thinking Film: Philosophy at the Movies aims to fling open the doors to this conversation on all sides. Inquiring into both philosophy's word on film and film's word to philosophy, the interdisciplinary dialogue of this book traverses the conceptual and the particular as it considers how film catalyzes our thinking and sets us talking. After viewing the world through film, we find our world--and ourselves--transformed by deeper understanding and new possibilities.
This book aims to provide a novel and engaging way in to thinking with and about this enduringly popular art form.
About the authors:
Richard Kearney holds the Charles Seelig Chair of Philosophy at Boston College. He is author of numerous books including Wake of the Imagination, On Stories and most recently Touch: Recovering our Most Vital Sense (2021).M. E. Littlejohn is Professor of Philosophy at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, and is currently an Invited Researcher at Sorbonne Université.
Press Reviews:
"From the groundbreaking works of Cavell and Deleuze, through contemporary philosophies of film, to a philosophical working through of particular films, this book provides a detailed guide to some of the most important philosophical work on film of the last half-century. Kearney and Littlejohn have done something
remarkable here." ―Joseph Westfall, Professor of Philosophy, University of Houston-Downtown, USA
See the publisher website: Bloomsbury Academic
> On a related topic:
Reading Cavell's the World Viewed (2000)
A Philosophical Perspective on Film
by Marian Keane and William Rothman
Subject: Theory
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