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Philosophy of film traditionally concerns itself with the reflective study of the nature of film, aiming to spell out what film is, whether it is an art, how it differs from other arts, and so on. It is philosophy about film. Contrasted with this is the idea of film serving as a resource, means or medium for the illumination and exploration of ...
Nov 13, 2009 · For example, films like Ingmar Bergman's 1957 film The Seventh Seal, or Akira Kurosawa's 1950 film Rashomon would seem to be the prime material for such a text. Instead, Wartenberg opts to approach the defense of his thesis predominantly through readings of popular as opposed to art house films.
- Matthew Turner
- 2009
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Oct 11, 2017 · Carroll’s five conditions have been the object of intense debate between film philosophers (see, e.g., Shaw 2008; Wartenberg 2010), and they have been criticized for their purely theoretical (also logical) form as well as for their inability to identify the film medium effectively. 4 For example, the fifth condition appears to be questionable in the face of rapid developments in technology ...
- Alberto Baracco
- alberto.baracco@unito.it
- 2017
The Wartenberg-Smith Film as Philosophy Debate: Review of Current Controversies in Philosophy of Film The debate around the idea that films can philosophize is relatively recent. It was first inspired by Gilles Deleuze’s and Stanley Cavell’s writings on the philosophical potential of film.
Thomas E. Wartenberg, Thoughtful Images: Illustrating Philosophy Through Art(Oxford University Press, 328 Pages | 19 b/w illustrations, 27 color plates, ISBN: 9780197650547. Thoughtful Imagesis the first comprehensive study of works of visual art that illustrate philosophy. It is surprising that there are so few philosophical works that focus ...
A concern with children doing philosophy is inseparable from a preoccupation with childhood and asks for a redefinition of childhood itself. T his exploration is at least one fundamental dimension of the group of philosophers and educators who presented their work and experience at the Conference “Philosophy and Childhood: Theory and Practice.
2011 •. Martin P Rossouw. Over the past two decades the field of ‘philosophy of film’ has become increasingly concerned with the self-reflective question of what constitutes the relationship between film and philosophy itself. This study proposes and explores a unique ‘deep-structure’ perspective on their relationship.
