Cinema, Philosophy, Bergman: On Film as Philosophy

by Paisley Livingston

Book Overview

The increasingly popular idea that cinematic fictions can "do" philosophy raises some difficult questions. Who is actually doing the philosophizing? Is it the philosophical commentator who reads general arguments or theories into the stories conveyed by a film? Could it be the filmmaker, or a group of collaborating filmmakers, who raise and try to answer philosophical questions with a film? Is there something about the experience of films that is...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199655146
• ISBN13: 9780199655144
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.3" x 8.4"