Thinking Film: Philosophy at the Movies

Thinking Film: Philosophy at the Movies

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Thinking FilmPhilosophy at the Movies\nAuthor(s): Richard Kearney, M. E. Littlejohn\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350113466, 978-1350113466\nSynopsis\nHailed 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?\n\nFollowing 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 t.

Compare prices (7 shops)

Sort: Price: lowest first Price: highest first
shop Price Action
25,14 GBP Go to shop
25,15 GBP Go to shop
27,61 GBP Go to shop
27,65 GBP Go to shop
28,15 GBP Go to shop
28,86 GBP Go to shop
28,86 GBP Go to shop

Similar products