Film as Philosophy: Essays in Cinema after Wittgenstein and Cavell

Jerry Goodenough

228 pages, Paperback

ISBN: 1403997950

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Language: English

Publish: 1127804400000

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A series of essays on film and philosophy whose authors – philosophers or film studies experts – write on a wide variety of 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.

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