1st Edition

Philosophy and Film Bridging Divides

Edited By Christina Rawls, Diana Neiva, Steven S. Gouveia Copyright 2019
    400 Pages
    by Routledge

    400 Pages
    by Routledge

    This volume collects twenty original essays on the philosophy of film. It uniquely brings together scholars working across a range of philosophical traditions and academic disciplines to broaden and advance debates on film and philosophy. The book includes contributions from a number of prominent philosophers of film including Noël Carroll, Chris Falzon, Deborah Knight, Paisley Livingston, Robert Sinnerbrink, Malcolm Turvey, and Thomas Wartenberg.



    While the topics explored by the contributors are diverse, there are a number of thematic threads that connect them. Overall, the book seeks to bridge analytic and continental approaches to philosophy of film in fruitful ways. Moving to the individual essays, the first two sections offer novel takes on the philosophical value and the nature of film. The next section focuses on the film-as-philosophy debate. Section IV covers cinematic experience, while Section V includes interpretations of individual films that touch on questions of artificial intelligence, race and film, and cinema’s biopolitical potential. Finally, the last section proposes new avenues for future research on the moving image beyond film.



    This book will appeal to a broad range of scholars working in film studies, theory, and philosophy.

     

    Preface



    Thomas E. Wartenberg





    Part I: The Nature of Film



    Chapter 1: (Collapsed) Seeing-In and the (Im-)Possibility of Progress in Analytic Philosophy (of Film)



    Malcolm Turvey





    Chapter 2: The World Viewed and the World Lived: Stanley Cavell and Film as the Moving Image of Skepticism



    Jônadas Techio





    Chapter 3: The Morph-Image: Four Forms of Post-Cinema



    Steen Ledet Christiansen





    Chapter 4: Deleuze’s Cronosigns



    Susana Viegas





    Part II: The Film as Philosophy Debate



    Chapter 5: The Bold Thesis Retired: On Cinema as Philosophy



    Paisley Livingston





    Chapter 6: Film as Philosophical Thought Experiment: Some Challenges and Opportunities



    Tom McClelland





    Chapter 7: Are there Definite Objections to Film as Philosophy? Metaphilosophical considerations



    Diana Neiva





    Chapter 8: Philosophical Dimensions of Cinematic Experience



    David Davies





    Part III: The Philosophical Value of Film



    Chapter 9: Philosophical Experience and Experimental Film



    Christopher Falzon





    Chapter 10: Filmmaking as self-writing: Federico Fellini’s (1963)



    Roberto Mordacci





    Chapter 11: Film and Ethics



    Robert Sinnerbrink





    Part IV: Cinematic Experience



    Chapter 12: Movies, Narration and the Emotions



    Noël Carroll





    Chapter 13: Predictive Processing and the Experimental Solution for the Paradox of Fiction



    Dina Mendonça





    Chapter 14: The lived experience of Motion Pictures: A Phenomenological Approach to Cinema



    Hanna Trindade





    Part V: Interpreting Cinematic Works



    Chapter 15: The Blade Runner Question: From Philosophy to Myth



    Deborah Knight





    Chapter 16: Race, Bodies and Lived Realities in Get Out and Black Panther



    Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo





    Chapter 17: Transnational Bio-Political Motives in Postmodern Cinema: Žižek and Badiou on Udi Aloni’s Forgiveness and Local Angel



    Oana Serban





    Part VI: Further Debates



    Chapter 18: Cinema and Television: The Art and Industry of Joint Works



    Inês Rebanda Coelho





    Chapter 19: Towards a Natural Screen Philosophy



    Hunter Vaughn





    Chapter 20: Metaphysical Alter-Egos: Matheson, Dunne and the View From Somewhere



    John Ó Maoilearca

    Biography

    Christina Rawls is Professor of Philosophy at Roger Williams University, USA.



    Diana Neiva is a Researcher at the Mind, Language, and Action Group of the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto, Portugal.



    Steven S. Gouveia is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Minho, Portugal. He is the co-editor of Perception, Cognition, and Aesthetics (forthcoming, Routledge).