Film as Philosophy Essays in Cinema after Wittgenstein and Cavell [Paperback]

A series of essays on film and philosophy whose authors - philosophers or film studies experts - write on a wide variety of films: classic Hollywood comedies, war films, Eastern European art films, science fiction, showing how film and watching it can not only illuminate philosophy but, in an important sense, be doing philosophy. The book is crowned with an interview with Wittgensteinian philosopher Stanley Cavell, discussing his interests in philosophy and in film and how they can come together.List of Plates Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction I: A Philosopher Goes to the Cinema; J.Goodenough Introduction II: What Theory of Film do Wittgenstein and Cavell have ?; R.Read PART I: ESSAYS Cogito Ergo Film: Plato, Descartes and Fight Club ; N.Bauer In Space No-one can Hear you Scream; S.Mulhall Memento : A Philosophical Investigation; P.Hutchinson & R.Read The Everydayness of Don Giovanni; S.Glendinning Silent Dialogue: Philosophizing with Jan Svankmajer; D.Rudrum Calm: On Terence Malik's The Thin Red Line ; S.Critchley Habitual Remarriage: The Ends of Happiness in The Palm Beach Story ; S.Klawans PART II: INTERVIEW What Becomes of Thinking on Film?: Stanley Cavell in Conversation with Andrew Klevan Bibliography Index

'A collection of articles on individual films both interesting in itself, and fascinating as a sign of the fruitful and widespread impact on thinking about movies that Stanley Cavell's work is beginning to have. To top it off, there is a conversation with Cavell (conducted by Andrew Klevan) that is, by itself, worth the price of admission.' - Professor Stanley Bates, Department of Philosophy, Middlebury College, USA

'...a fine collection of writings by a new generation of philosophers interested in looking anew at film as philosophical practice. Rather than merely using cinema to illustrate classic philosophical positions, each endeavours to see film as a potential source of philosophical insight. In this respect it rel3L