Thinking Through Cinema

Book Overview

The 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.

A 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. Explores 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. Draws on a range of films, from the works of Hitchcock to Mission: Impossible and Being John Malkovich.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 140515411X
• ISBN13: 9781405154116
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 7.1" x 10.0"