Cinematic Thinking: Philosophical Approaches to the New Cinema

Book Overview

Each essay in Cinematic Thinking is organized around an interpretation of a postwar filmmaker and the philosophical issues his or her work raises. The filmmakers covered are Alfred Hitchcock, Luchino Visconti, Michelangelo Antonioni, Robert Altman, Carlos Saura, Glauber Rocha, Margarethe von Trotta, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders, and Claire Denis. As the authors collected here are philosophers, rather than film critics, the volume approaches...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804758018
• ISBN13: 9780804758017
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 8.9"