Thinking Through Film

Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies

Cox, Damian / Levine, Michael P.

1. Auflage August 2011
288 Seiten, Softcover
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Thinking Through Film: Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies introduces readers to a broad range of philosophical issues through film, as well as to issues about the nature of film itself - a blend missing in most recent books on philosophy and film. Cox and Levine explore concepts that span metaphysics, fate, robot love, time travel, personal identity, spectacle and deontology within films such as Total Recall, Ikuru, The Dark Knight, and AI. This book is a uniquely flexible resource for courses in philosophy and film that encourages student reflection, as well as being an engaging read for the film enthusiast.

ISBN: 978-1-4051-9342-9

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An introduction to philosophy through film, Thinking Through Film: Doing Philosophy, Watching Movies combines the exploration of fundamental philosophical issues with the experience of viewing films, and provides an engaging reading experience for undergraduate students, philosophy enthusiasts and film buffs alike.
* An in-depth yet accessible introduction to the philosophical issues raised by films, film spectatorship and film-making
* Provides 12 self-contained, close discussions of individual films from across genres
* Films discussed include Total Recall, Minority Report, La Promesse, Funny Games, Ikuru, The Dark Knight, Memento, AI and more
* Explores concepts that span epistemology, metaphysics, fate, choice, robot love, time travel, personal identity, spectacle, ethics, luck, regret, consequentialism, deontology and the philosophy of film itself
* A uniquely flexible resource for courses in philosophy and film that encourages student reflection, as well as being an engaging read for the film enthusiast

Preface

Part I: Philosophy and Film

Part II: Epistemology and Metaphysics

Part III: The Human Condition

Part IV: Ethics and Values

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Thinking Through Film provides the best introduction available to the diverse relationships between film and philosophy. Clearly written and persuasively argued, it will benefit students of both film and philosophy.

Thomas E. Wartenberg, Mount Holyoke College

Cox and Levine's admirable Thinking Through Film picks up where Philosophy Goes to the Movies left off, arguing that films not only do philosophy but, in some cases, do it better than philosophers! The result is a rich and rewarding examination of films-from metaphysical thought experiments, personal identity puzzles, to reflections on the meaning of life-that shows, in bracing, no-nonsense fashion, how popular cinema can do serious philosophy.

Roger Sinnerbrink, Macquarie University

Damian Cox is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at Bond University. He is co-author of Integrity and the Fragile Self with Michael Levine and Marguerite La Caze in 2003. Cox has written widely on philosophical topics including ethics, value theory, metaphysics and epistemology.

Michael Levine is professor of Philosophy at the University of Western Australia, and has co-authored Politics Most Unusual: Violence, Sovereignty and Democracy in the 'War on Terror' with Damian Cox and Saul Newman (2009). He is currently working on the topic of the role of regret and self-assessment in our moral lives.

D. Cox, Bond University, Australia; M. P. Levine, University of Western Australia, Australia