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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.

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Over the last decade the philosophy of film has emerged as a distinctive
field within aesthetics, engaging with a variety of questions concerning
the relationship between film and art. One question in particular
has become very prominent in philosophical discussions of film: to what extent can film--or individual films--act as a vehicle of or forum for philosophy itself? This is the domain of "film as philosophy," which forms the focus of this volume. 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. The contributors canvas a wide variety of forms and periods of film as they present diverse answers to this question.

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Title Thinking Through Cinema
Author Murray Smith (Editor); Thomas E. Wartenberg (Editor)
Binding Paperback
Edition number 1st
Edition 1
Pages 240
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Wiley-Blackwell
Publication date 2006-03-10
Illustrated Yes
Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
ISBN 9781405154116 / 140515411X
Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
Dimensions 10 x 7.08 x 0.49 in (25.40 x 17.98 x 1.24 cm)
Category Philosophy
Library of Congress subjects Motion pictures
Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2006279523
Dewey Decimal Code 791.43

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Reference and Research Bk News, 02/01/2007, Page 277

About the author

Murray Smith is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Kent, UK. He is the author of Engaging Characters: Fiction, Emotion, and the Cinema (Oxford, 1995) and Trainspotting (British Film Institute, 2002), and the co-editor of Film Theory and Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 1998) and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema (Routledge, 1998). He has published widely on the relationship between ethics, emotion, and films, including essays in this journal and Cinema Journal.

Thomas E. Wartenberg is Chair of the Philosophy Department at Mount Holyoke College, where he also teaches in the Film Studies Program. He is the author of Unlikely Couples: Movie Romance as Social Criticism (Westview Press, 1999) and The Forms of Power: From Domination to Transformation (Temple University Press, 1990), the editor of The Nature of Art (Wadsworth Publishing, 2001), and the co-editor of Philosophy and Film (Routledge, 1995)and The Philosophy of Film: Introductory Text and Readings (Blackwell, 2005).

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