Philosophy of Film Without Theory

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3031136543
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9783031136542
• Author: Craig Fox

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: Philosophy of Film, With and Without Theory

Part I. Doing Without Theory Yet Still Doing Philosophy

2. The Procrustean Bed of Theory: In Conversation with Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey

3. It All Depends: Some Problems with Analytic Film Theorising from the Perspective of Ordinary Language Philosophy

4. Lone Star: Ambiguity as a Philosophical Given and a Philosophical Virtue

5. No Theory at Marienbad

6. Film and the Space-Time Continuum

Part II. The Appeal of—and to—Wittgenstein

7. Ordinary Returns in Le notti di Cabiria

8. Wittgensteinian Film-as-Philosophy Exemplified: Exploring the Exploration of Point-of-view in Cuaron’s Space-Exploration Film Gravity

9. On Films that Think by Seeing Frictionally: Toward a Wittgensteinian Philosophy of Film

Part III. Revisiting—and Reconsidering—Cavell

10. Knowing or Not-Knowing in the Cinema? Rethinking Cavell’s Image of Skepticism

11. Cavell, Experiences of Modernism, and Kamran Shirdel’s The Night it Rained

12. The Same Again, Only a Little Different: Stanley Cavell’s Two Takes on The Philadelphia Story

Part IV. Seeing Faces, Finding Others

13. Seeing One Another Anew with Godfrey Reggio’s Visitors

14. A Punctum Scene in Shoah

15. Mary Magdalene and Murdochian Film Phenomenology

Part V. Cinematic Investigations

16. Cinematic Invisibility: The Shower Scene in Hitchcock’s Psycho

17. Entertaining Unhappiness

18. In Kieślowski’s Restaurant des Philosophes: Determinism and Free Will Under Surveillance

19. Loving the Characters, Caring for the Work: Long-Term Engagement with TV Serials

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