Thinking film : philosophy at the movies / edited by Richard Kearney and Murray Littlejohn.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kearney, Richard, editor.

Littlejohn, Murray, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (425 pages)

Place of Publication:

London, England : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, [2023]

Summary:

Hailed as one of America's original art forms, film has the distinctive character of crossing high and low art. But film has done more than this. According to American philosopher Stanley Cavell, film was also a place where America in the 1930s and 1940s did its thinking, a tradition that was taken up and enriched throughout world cinema. Can film indeed think? That is, can film do the work of philosophy? Following Cavell's lead to think along the tear of the analytic-continental traditions, this book draws from both sides of the philosophical divide to reflect on this question. Spanning generations and disciplines, pondering everything from art house classics to mainstream blockbusters, Thinking Film: Philosophy at the Movies aims to fling open the doors to this conversation on all sides. Inquiring into both philosophy's word on film and film's word to philosophy, the interdisciplinary dialogue of this book traverses the conceptual and the particular as it considers how film catalyzes our thinking and sets us talking. After viewing the world through film, we find our world--and ourselves--transformed by deeper understanding and new possibilities. This book aims to provide a novel and engaging way in to thinking with and about this enduringly popular art form.

Contents:

Intro

Half Title

Series Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgments

Editorial Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Classic Philosophers on Film

Chapter 1: The Thought of Movies

Chapter 2: On Cinema

Part II: Thinking on Films

Chapter 3: Film as Philosophy and Cinematic Thinking

Chapter 4: Philosophical Therapy at the Movies

Chapter 5: Missing Mothers/Desiring Daughters: Framing the Sight of Women

Chapter 6: Why Is Leap Year Not a Comedy of Remarriage?

Chapter 7: Film and Television as Forms of Shared Experience

Chapter 8: What Does It Mean to Have a Cinematic Idea?: Deleuze and Kurosawa's Stray Dog

Chapter 9: "The Active Eye" (Revisited): Toward a Phenomenology of Cinematic Movement

Chapter 10: Rethinking Monster Movies: Men in Black, Alien Resurrection, and Apocalypse Now

Chapter 11: A Plural Transcendence: When Film Does Phenomenology

Chapter 12: I Wake Up Screaming: Kansas and Beyond

Chapter 13: Mediating Fairy Stories in Words and Images: Warring Magics in J. R. R. Tolkien and Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings

Part III: Thinking with Films

Chapter 14: On Wim Wenders's Paris, Texas

Chapter 15: On Larissa Shepitko's The Ascent

Chapter 16: On Jim Jarmusch's Paterson

Chapter 17: On Sidney Lumet's Serpico

Chapter 18: On Antwone Fisher's Antwone Fisher

Chapter 19: On Hirokazu Kore-eda's Our Little Sister

Chapter 20: On Lars von Trier's The House That Jack Built

Chapter 21: On Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest

Chapter 22: On Luchino Visconti's Death in Venice

Chapter 23: On Andrei Tarkovsky's Andrei Rublev

Chapter 24: On Krysztof Kies´lowski's Le Double Vie de Véronique

Chapter 25: On Quentin Tarantino's The Hateful Eight

Chapter 26: On Wes Anderson's The Royal Tenenbaums.

Chapter 27: On Persichetti, Ramsey, and Rothman's Spider-man

Chapter 28: On the Dardenne Brothers' Young Ahmed

Chapter 29: On John Huston's The Dead

Chapter 30: On Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life

Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781350113473

1350113476

9781350113442

1350113441

OCLC:

1382695655