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Philosophy of Film
Edited by Clotilde Torregrossa (University of St. Andrews)
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| Summary | "Philosophy of Film" is often used to describe a few different kinds of work. Two are most important. We should distinguish between philosophy in or through film, and the philosophy of or about film. When one does philosophy through film, one seeks to either illuminate some philosophical idea or to make progress on some philosophical issue through a discussion of a movie. One might even attribute the philosophical work to the film. We might call this philosophy in film. In contrast, the philosophy of film is the philosophy about film. It asks about the nature of film, our experience of it, how it works its magic on us, and what limitations it might have. The analytic philosophy of film is principally issue driven. One of the issues concerns the philosophical limits of film, whether philosophy in film is possible. This mid-level category is home to both kinds of work, philosophy through film and the philosophy of film. |
| Key works | Carroll's Philosophy of Motion Pictures and Gaut's A Philosophy of Cinematic Art are two leading monographs offering opposing views on a wide range of issue in the analytic philosophy of film. |
| Introductions | Livingston and Plantinga's Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film is by far the best source for survey articles on topics and figures in the area. Thomson-Jones's Aesthetics and Film provides a clear, brief introduction to several important topics in the area. |
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Ontology of Film (83)
Audience Engagement in Film (83 | 22)
Genres of Film (147 | 6)
Philosophy Through Film (283)
Philosophy of Film, Misc (120)
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- Why not realize your world?William Rothman Interviewed by Jeffrey Crouse - 2019 - In William Rothman (ed.), Tuitions and intuitions: essays at the intersection of film criticism and philosophy. Albany: SUNY Press.Remove from this listExport citation
Bookmark - The eye of the cinematograph: Levinas and realisms of the body.Keyvan Manafi - 2023 - Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.Explores the encounter between Emmanuel Levinas' ethical thought and aesthetic realisms of the body.
- Kono jiyūna sekai to watashitachi no kaeru basho.Shintarō Kōno - 2023 - Tōkyō-to Chiyoda-ku: Seidosha.感情の取り締まり(ポリシング)、トランス排除、宗教右派からポストトゥルースまで。透徹した思考に貫かれた論考群。.
- Biopolitical ethics in global cinema.Seung-Hoon Jeong - 2023 - New York, NY: Oxford University Press.This book is a critical attempt to approach world cinema in a new global frame that updates the national frame of territorial cinemas and the transnational frame of their interplay. The global frame implies the reintegration of border-crossing forces onto the postpolitical plane of troubled globalization with two ethical facets: the soft ethical inclusion of differences in multicultural, neoliberal systems and their hard ethical symptoms of fundamentalist exclusion and terror. Reflecting both, global cinema is formulated as staging crucial challenges that (...)
- al-Sīnimā wa-al-maʻná al-mītāfīzīqī lil-ṣūrah.ʻAzīz Ḥaddādī - 2023 - al-Qāhirah: Dār Ruʼyah lil-Nashr wa-al-Tawzīʻ.
- Unhomed: cycles of mobility and placelessness in American cinema.Pamela Robertson Wojcik - 2024 - Oakland, California: University of California Press.In this rich cultural history, Pamela Robertson Wojcik examines America's ambivalent and shifting attitude toward homelessness through a close study of film cycles from five distinct historical moments that show characters as unhomed and placeless, mobile rather than fixed: failing, resisting, or opting out of the mandate for a home of one's own. From the tramp films of the Silent Era to the Oscar-winning Nomadland in 2021, Wojcik shows how film cycles reveal a tension in the American imaginary between viewing (...)
- Cinematic encounters with disaster: realisms for the Anthropocene.Simon R. Troon - 2024 - New York: Bloomsbury Academic.This book takes Hollywood's disaster movies and their codified versions of natural disaster, post-apocalyptic survival, and extra-terrestrial threat as the starting point for an analytical trajectory toward new understandings of how cinema shapes and informs our conceptions of disaster and catastrophe. This book examines a range of films from distinct regional and industrial contexts: Hollywood, indie movies, different kinds of documentaries, and auteurist-realist cinema. Moving across and beyond critical and industrial categories that inform thinking about cinema, it contends that different (...)
- The othering of women in silent film: cultural, historical, and literary contexts.Barbara Tepa Lupack - 2023 - Lanham: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic.In The Othering of Women in Silent Film: Cultural, Historical, and Literary Contexts, Barbara Tepa Lupack explores the rampant racial and gender stereotyping in early cinema and demonstrates how that imagery helped shape American attitudes and practices.
- Interactive cinema: the ambiguous ethics of media participation.Marina Hassapopoulou - 2024 - Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.Interactive Cinema explores cinematic practices that work to transform what is often seen as a receptive activity into a participatory, multimedia experience. Combining cutting-edge theory with updated conventional film studies methodologies, Marina Hassapopoulou presses at the conceptual limits of cinema and offers an essential road map to the rapidly evolving landscape of contemporary media.
- An epistemology of criminological cinema.David Grčki - 2024 - New York, NY: Routledge. Edited by Rafe McGregor.Standing at the intersection of criminology and philosophy, this book demonstrates the ways in which mythic movies and television series can provide understanding of actual crimes and social harms. Taking three social problems as its subjects - capitalist political economy, structural injustice, and racism - the book explores the ways in which David Fincher's Fight Club (1999), HBO's Game of Thrones (2011-2019), and Jordan Peele's Us (2019) offer solutions by reconceiving justice in terms of personal and collective transformation, utopian thinking, (...)
- Stardust: cinematic archives at the end of the world.Hannah Goodwin - 2024 - Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.Tracing the many aesthetic, philosophical, and technological parallels between cinema and astronomy, Hannah Goodwin demonstrates how filmmakers have used cosmic imagery and themes to respond to the twentieth century's moments of existential dread. As our outlook on the future continues to change, Stardust illuminates the promise of cinema to bear witness to humanity's fragile existence within the vast expanse of the universe.
- Is Harpo free?: and other essays on the metaphysical screen.Matthew Cipa - 2024 - Albany: State University of New York Press.Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.
- Sport, film, and the modern world: aesthetics, ethics, environments.Neil Archer - 2024 - NewYork: Peter Lang.This book rethinks the discussion of sport as a cinematic subject. Arguing for the vitality of the sports film as distinctively 'modern' genre, the book looks at its innovative potential to capture twentieth- and twenty-first-century sport in all its complexity. Written in an accessible style and illustrated throughout, the book integrates work and ideas from film studies with thinking from sports psychology, philosophy, data theory and ecocriticism. In its detailed analyses of a wide-ranging group of films, the book shows how (...)Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- The ethics of horror: spectral alterity in twenty-first century horror film.Michael Joseph Burke - 2024 - Lanham: Lexington Books.This book examines spectral haunting through the philosophies of Levinas and Derrida. Arguing that moral obligation can appear terrifying to the complacent self, the text interrogates ethical responsibility in contemporary horror genres.
- Kulʹtura kino: perevod s nemet︠s︡kogo.Béla Balázs - 1925 - Moskva: Gosudarstvennoe izdatelʹstvo.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Kino i dukhovnoe obogashchenie lichnosti.Mukhsin Aliev - 1989 - Tashkent: Uzbekistan.
- Chʻŏrhak ŭro yŏnghwa pogi, yŏnghwa ro chʻorhak hagi.Yŏng-min Kim - 1994 - Sŏul: Chʻŏrhak kwa Hyŏnsilsa.
- Ficta and Virtuality: An Ingardenian Ontology of Virtualized Ficta.Hicham Jakha - forthcoming - Rivista di Estetica:1-16.In my paper, I establish an Ingardenian phenomenological ontology of virtualized ficta, i.e., fictional entities introduced to virtual gaming. The first Section of my paper provides an ontology of virtualized ficta, focusing primarily on their ‘‘existential moments’’. But in order to have a firm grasp of the ontological aspects grounding the virtual work, it’s important to engage its strata. This is what I attempt to do in Section 1.2. Virtualized ficta’s intentional dependencies are strongly manifest in what I call the (...)
- Memento.Andrew Kania - 2008 - In Paisley Livingston & Carl Plantinga (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film. Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Fondus enchaînés: essais de poétique du cinéma.Marc Cerisuelo - 2012 - Paris: Éditions du Seuil.Le cinéma est à plus d'un titre un art des relations : on ne comprend pleinement un film qu'en le situant dans l'histoire des formes (genre, série, reprise), dans celui de la pensée qu'il engendre chez le spectateur-philosophe (chacun de nous dans nos bons moments), ou dans l'étude de la mise en contact d'aires culturelles distinctes (la présence des Européens à Hollywood, par exemple). Ainsi, la poétique historique des films, la " cinéphilosophie " et l'approche du cinéma en termes de (...)
- Editor's Introduction.Laura T. Di Summa - 2024 - Film and Philosophy 28:3-5.
- Craig Fox & Britt Harrison, editors, Philosophy of Film Without Theory.Alexis Gibbs - 2024 - Film and Philosophy 28:135-139.
- Joshua Heter and Richard Greene, editors, The Godfather and Philosophy: An Argument You Can’t Refute.Peter Vernezze - 2024 - Film and Philosophy 28:131-133.
- Stop-Motion Animation’s Object Substitutions and Non-Depictive Representation.Andrea Marie Comiskey - 2024 - Film and Philosophy 28:111-129.This article explores a distinctive representational strategy used in stop-motion animation: the object substitution. Using as its central example a children’s TV episode in which brushes stand in for dogs, it explains how this strategy produces a complex relationship between depiction and representation. The analysis highlights the pragmatic underpinnings of various theories of pictorial and cinematic representation, arguing that, in a substitution, depicted elements constitute explicatures and represented ones implicatures. Connecting this strategy to humans’ capacity for pareidolia (seeing things in (...)
- Murdoch's Caring Gaze and "My Octopus Teacher".Thomas E. Wartenberg - 2024 - Film and Philosophy 28:71-89.In her essay “The Idea of Perfection,” Iris Murdoch argues that sustained attention directed towards another can result in a person’s moral improvement by getting them to have a more accurate view of the other. In this essay, I argue that the award-winning film My Octopus Teacher illustrates Murdoch’s view and corrects some of its shortcomings. It illustrates Murdoch’s claim by showing how one of the filmmaker’s sustained attention directed at an octopus results not only in an alternation in the (...)
- Taking Feminist Pornography Seriously.Georgie Malone - 2024 - Film and Philosophy 28:19-37.It has been argued that an adequate feminist response to sexist pornography demands not just efforts to eradicate sexist beliefs, but also aesthetic counter-intervention at the level of taste. This view motivates support for feminist pornography. This paper takes the feminist pornography suggestion seriously by unpacking difficulties for the project. I begin by spelling out two views about what makes feminist pornography feminist: the ‘content view,’ and the ‘context view,’ and discuss what I take to be existing arguments for the (...)
- The Tragedy of the Knight of Faith.Francesco Sticchi & Silvia Liliana Angeli - 2024 - Film and Philosophy 28:91-110.The cinema of Martin Scorsese has been analysed in connection with a wide range of themes and issues. In this paper, through a film-philosophical analysis, we aim to demonstrate how his filmography produces storyworlds pervaded by a tension similar to the one Søren Kierkegaard expressed in his existentialist writings. Indeed, one of the tenets of film-philosophy is that audio-visual media generate, in an affective and experiential manner, complex moral and ethical systems and existential viewpoints with which viewers interact in a (...)
- A Reflection of the Sun ( ).Sydney Harvey - 2024 - Film and Philosophy 28:1-18.This paper explores a philosophical argument about the use of natural light in films. I argue that directors use sunlight as a visual metaphor to induce a sublime experience from the viewer to elevate the narrative. While it is more efficient in terms of time management and finances to use electric lights, sunlight creates a successful emotional effect on the viewer placing them in contemplation of the relationship between humanity, nature, and humility. Essentially, I am concerned with what it is (...)
- Racialized Disgust and the Depiction of Native Americans in the Ranown Cycle Westerns.Dan Flory - 2024 - Film and Philosophy 28:39-69.This article explores mainstream audience reactions concerning race and how they intersect with late 1950s Westerns known as the Ranown cycle. Synthesizing ideas from critical philosophy of race, philosophy of film, cognitive film theory, and philosophy of emotion, I analyze how these films elicit racialized reactions of sociomoral disgust toward Native American characters. Because such responses are not ordinarily processed through higher-level forms of cognition, I argue that these embodied, affective, implicit reactions are key to understanding how films like those (...)
- In the Mood for Heideggerian Boredom? Film Viewership as Being-in-the-World.Chiara Quaranta - 2024 - Film-Philosophy 28 (1):31-46.In this article, I engage with Shawn Loht’s argument concerning film viewing as being-in-the-world, developed in his book Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience (2017), focusing on the aesthetics of mood with particular attention to boredom. I elaborate on a phenomenological ontology of the film experience and its perceptual “rules” which hinge on aesthetic choices: what kind of world does the film open up for the viewer? Loht’s account of viewing Dasein enables us to deepen phenomenological (...)
- Response to Critical Views of Phenomenology of Film.Shawn Loht - 2024 - Film-Philosophy 28 (1):113-130.This article responds to critical views of John Rhym, Martin Rossouw, Ludo de Roo, and Annie Sandrussi on my 2017 book Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience. The article also takes up positive footholds from the analyses of Chiara Quaranta and Jason Wirth. The main topics addressed include Martin Heidegger’s ontic-ontological distinction; the notion of film-as-philosophy; being-in-the-world read as being-in-the-film-world; and questions surrounding the facticity and identity of the film viewer.
- Reflexive Wonderings: Prospects and Parameters of a Heideggerian Approach to Film as Philosophy.Martin P. Rossouw - 2024 - Film-Philosophy 28 (1):47-61.This response article addresses the conception of “film as philosophy” developed by Shawn Loht in his book Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience (2017), with specific attention to the relevance and implications of Loht's approach for the broader debate beyond a strictly Heideggerian film-philosophy. The article proceeds in three distinct takes. The first take examines Loht's later-Heideggerian inspirations, arguing that although these more fundamental notions of philosophy open significant possibilities for film as philosophy, they nevertheless run (...)
- Dasein and the Question of the Heterogenous Film Viewer: A Commentary on Loht’s Heideggerian Phenomenology of Film.Annie Sandrussi - 2024 - Film-Philosophy 28 (1):62-78.In response to Shawn Loht’s 2017 project delineating a Heideggerian phenomenology of film, Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience, I examine how productive Loht’s Dasein-centric account of the film viewer might be for considering diverse film-viewer experiences. Starting from Loht’s premise that the film–viewer relation is the constitutive ground of filmic disclosure, I raise two concerns regarding Heidegger’s account of Dasein that might obscure an account of the diversity of film viewers and associated heterogeneity of filmic (...)
- Padraic Killeen (2022). The Dark Interval: Film Noir, Iconography, and Affect.William B. Covey - 2024 - Film-Philosophy 28 (1):140-143.
- Introduction: Heidegger and the Phenomenology of Film.Robert Sinnerbrink - 2024 - Film-Philosophy 28 (1):1-10.
- An Ambiguous World of Film: Cinematic Immersion beyond Early Heidegger.Ludo de Roo - 2024 - Film-Philosophy 28 (1):11-30.Shawn Loht's ground-breaking Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience (2017) offers a detailed account of film experience as rooted in Martin Heidegger's existential structure of Dasein. Adapting Being and Time for a phenomenology of cinematic experience, Loht accurately describes how various existential structures of Dasein are “fostered” by the projected world of film: in Loht's account, being-in-the-world is extended in the film experience. Loht's project offers fertile ground for developing the phenomenological basis of film experience. Yet, (...)
- Kelli Fuery (2022). Ambiguous Cinema: From Simone de Beauvoir to Feminist Film Phenomenology.Kate Ince - 2024 - Film-Philosophy 28 (1):136-139.
- Genevieve Yue (2021). Girl Head: Feminism and Film Materiality.Laura Staab - 2024 - Film-Philosophy 28 (1):148-151.
- Cinematic Rehearsals of Phenomenology: On the Ontic-Ontological Schema and Heideggerian Film Theory.John Rhym - 2024 - Film-Philosophy 28 (1):79-97.This article argues that the strengths and problems of Shawn Loht's Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience (2017) are rooted in its method, which derives from a specific interpretation of Heidegger's existential analytic and from the critical strategy implemented by Heidegger – and thus later adopted by his readers and applied to various disciplinary domains – in his polemical engagement with the history of philosophy. Central to this method is what I refer to as the ontic-ontological (...)
- Eugenie Brinkema (2022). Life-Destroying Diagrams.Archie Wolfman - 2024 - Film-Philosophy 28 (1):144-147.
- Matilda Mroz (2020). Framing the Holocaust in Polish Aftermath Cinema: Posthumous Materiality and Unwanted Knowledge.Emily-Rose Baker - 2024 - Film-Philosophy 28 (1):131-135.
- A Mud Doctor Checking Out the Earth Underneath: Ruminations on Malick’s Days of Heaven and Loht’s Phenomenology of Film.Jason M. Wirth - 2024 - Film-Philosophy 28 (1):98-112.This is a philosophical rumination on Shawn Loht’s important extension of “film as philosophy” into a Heideggerian phenomenological account of the philosophical response that cinema can engender. After considering the importance of these kinds of approaches, I turn to Loht’s phenomenological engagement with Terrence Malick’s early masterpiece, Days of Heaven (1978). After sympathetically reviewing his “interpretation”, I expand upon its delineation of “earth and world” to include the “fallenness” of the world as well as the possibility of a metanōetic awakening (...)
- Conclusion: Film "text analysis" a new beginning?Janina Wildfeuer & John A. Bateman - 2016 - In Janina Wildfeuer & John A. Bateman (eds.), Film Text Analysis: New Perspectives on the Analysis of Filmic Meaning. Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Intermediality in film: a blending-based perspective.John A. Bateman - 2016 - In Janina Wildfeuer & John A. Bateman (eds.), Film Text Analysis: New Perspectives on the Analysis of Filmic Meaning. Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Eat, pray, love: expanding adaptations and global tourism.Joyce Goggin - 2016 - In Janina Wildfeuer & John A. Bateman (eds.), Film Text Analysis: New Perspectives on the Analysis of Filmic Meaning. Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- From visual narrative grammar to filmic narrative grammar: the narrative structure of static and moving images.Neil Cohn - 2016 - In Janina Wildfeuer & John A. Bateman (eds.), Film Text Analysis: New Perspectives on the Analysis of Filmic Meaning. Routledge.
- From text to recipient: pragmatic insights for filmic meaning construction.Janina Wildfeuer - 2016 - In Janina Wildfeuer & John A. Bateman (eds.), Film Text Analysis: New Perspectives on the Analysis of Filmic Meaning. Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Editing space as an audio-visual composition.Martine Huvenne - 2016 - In Janina Wildfeuer & John A. Bateman (eds.), Film Text Analysis: New Perspectives on the Analysis of Filmic Meaning. Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Movie physics or dynamic patterns as the skeleton of movies.Wolfgang Wildgen - 2016 - In Janina Wildfeuer & John A. Bateman (eds.), Film Text Analysis: New Perspectives on the Analysis of Filmic Meaning. Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
- Towards a semiotics of film lighting.Theo van Leeuwen & Morten Boeriis - 2016 - In Janina Wildfeuer & John A. Bateman (eds.), Film Text Analysis: New Perspectives on the Analysis of Filmic Meaning. Routledge.Remove from this listExport citation Bookmark
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