Overview
- Challenges the presumption that serious philosophical engagement with film and television must be theoretical
- Demonstrates, by example, ways of doing philosophy of film and film studies without ‘doing theory’
- Argues for the power of theory-free philosophy and film studies as a way to expand our humanistic understanding
Part of the book series: Palgrave Film Studies and Philosophy (PFSP)
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Doing Without Theory Yet Still Doing Philosophy
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The Appeal of—and to—Wittgenstein
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Seeing Faces, Finding Others
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About this book
This book challenges the long-standing presumption that serious philosophical engagement with film and television must be theoretical. It demonstrates, by example, how philosophy of film and film studies can move beyond the methodological assumption that understands philosophical to mean theoretical. In seventeen specially commissioned essays, one in-depth interview, and one reprint, leading philosophers and film scholars exploit the approaches, arguments, and insights of Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Iris Murdoch, Augustine, Berys Gaut, Noël Carroll, and Ordinary Language Philosophy, in exploring, amongst others, Gravity, Lone Star, The Handmaid’s Tale, Le notti di Cabiria, Dunkirk, L'Année dernière à Marienbad, Visitors, The Night it Rained, Philadelphia Story, Shoah, Mary Magdalene, Psycho, Blue Jasmine, Three Colours: Red, War Games, and Histoire(s) du Cinéma. In so doing, this collection argues forthe power of theory-free philosophy and film studies as a way to expand our humanistic understanding.
Reviews
– Dr Robert Sinnerbrink, Macquarie University, Australia.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Craig Fox is Professor of Philosophy at Pennsylvania Western University, USA. He teaches courses in logic, aesthetics, and the history of philosophy. Recently, he has been working on pieces of an overall project focused on aesthetics as a path into understanding the significance and relevance of Wittgenstein’s later thought.
Britt Harrison is an Independent Scholar with PhDs in philosophy from the University of York, UK, (2022) and the University of Hertfordshire, UK, (2012). She is also a film producer, screenwriter, and script consultant.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Philosophy of Film Without Theory
Editors: Craig Fox, Britt Harrison
Series Title: Palgrave Film Studies and Philosophy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13654-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13653-5Published: 20 April 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-13656-6Published: 21 April 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-13654-2Published: 19 April 2023
Series ISSN: 2946-5435
Series E-ISSN: 2946-5443
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 308
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Screen Studies, Film Theory, Film Theory