From Plato's Cave to the Multiplex: Contemporary Philosophy and Film (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781847180131)

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From Plato's Cave to the Multiplex: Contemporary Philosophy and Film

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From Plato's Cave to the Multiplex: Contemporary Philosophy and Film

$58.95
Format: Hardcover
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This is a rich and varied collection of articles that both offer philosophical analyses of film and reflect on philosophical questions through film. The pieces range widely, from discussions of specific films and the work of particular directors, to reflections on cinematic techniques and on the medium of cinema in general. Here, cinema enters into a genuinely productive interaction with philosophy. We see how philosophical perspectives and methods are able to inform the critical analysis of film, how films can concretely explore and make use of philosophical perspectives, and how film can challenge and provoke philosophical reflection. Some of the articles address familiar themes in the developing philosophy and film literature in fresh ways, while others make surprising and revealing new connections between philosophical perspectives and cinema. Either way, the results are always interesting and illuminating, and demonstrate once again how fruitful the bringing together of philosophy and film can be.

Author: Stephen Rainey
ISBN-10: 1847180132
ISBN-13: 9781847180131
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 05/30/2006
Pages: 132
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.90w x 0.60d
By Stephen Rainey
By Stephen Rainey
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Barbara Gabriella Renzi is completing her PhD on Scientific Methodology and Evolutionary Biology at the Queen's University of Belfast. She studied Philosophy of Science and specialised in Bioethics at 'La Sapienza' in Rome. She published Natural Selection, Exaptation and the Evolution of Science in Philosophical Writings and A false Beginning: a Search for a universal Language. And a different Proposal in Beginnings: Critical Perspectives, edited by Angela Bruning. She taught courses on Philosophy and Film at Queen's University Belfast and her poems appear in Italian anthologies. Stephen Rainey obtained a first class degree and MA with distinction in philosophy from Queen's University Belfast, where he remains to this day, writing his PhD thesis on a contemporary view of rationality by Kantian means. Barbara Gabriella and Stephen have co-edited a collection of philosophical papers entitled Noesis for the Cambridge Scholars Press

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