Cinema, philosophy, Bergman : on film as philosophy / Paisley Livingston.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Livingston, Paisley, 1951- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007--Criticism and interpretation.

Bergman, Ingmar.

Bergman, Ingmar, 1918-2007--Philosophy.

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Philosophy in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 215 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

On film as philosophy

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The increasingly popular idea that cinematic fictions can 'do' philosophy raises some difficult questions. Who is actually doing the philosophizing? Is it the philosophical commentator who reads general arguments or theories into the stories conveyed by a film? Could it be the film-maker, or a group of collaborating film-makers, who raise and try to answer philosophical questions with a film? Is there something about the experience of films that is especially suited to thestimulation of worthwhile philosophical reflections? In the first part of this book, Paisley Livingston surveys positions a

Contents:

Surveying cinema as philosophy

Theses on cinema as philosophy

Arguing over cinema as philosophy

An intentionalist approach to film as philosophy

Types of authorship in the cinema

Partial intentionalism

On Ingmar Bergman and philosophy

Bergman, Kaila, and the faces of irrationality

Value, authenticity, and fantasy in Bergman.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-161002-X

0-19-965514-6

9786612349065

0-19-157069-9

1-282-34906-6

OCLC:

466407220