Philosophy of Film Without Theory

This book challenges the long-standing presumption that serious philosophical engagement with film and television must be theoretical. It demonstrates, by example, how philosophy of film and film studies can move beyond the methodological assumption that understands philosophical to mean theoretical. In seventeen specially commissioned essays, one in-depth interview, and one reprint, leading philosophers and film scholars exploit the approaches, arguments, and insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Iris Murdoch, Augustine, Berys Gaut, No l Carroll, and Ordinary Language Philosophy, in exploring, amongst others, Gravity, Lone Star, The Handmaid's Tale, Le notti di Cabiria, Dunkirk, L'Ann e derni re Marienbad, Visitors, The Night it Rained, Philadelphia Story, Shoah, Mary Magdalene, Psycho, Blue Jasmine, Three Colours: Red, War Games, and Histoire(s) du Cin ma. In so doing, this collection argues forthe power of theory-free philosophy and film studies as a way to expand our humanistic understanding.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031136535
• ISBN13: 9783031136535
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.3"