Film and Knowledge

Essays on the Integration of Images and Ideas

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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Film has become such an underpinning of art and pop culture that its potential for inspiring serious thought is often overlooked. Our intellectual involvement with film has been minimized as more in the audience want to be merely amazed and entertained.Essays written by both established and cutting-edge philosophers of film concentrate in this work on the value of film in general and the value of certain films in particular for the study and teaching of ideas. The essays explore such topics as the significance of narrative unity for self knowledge in David Lynch's Lost Highway and in Paul Schrader's Affliction; ambiguity and responsibility in Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon; consciousness and cognition in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane; skepticism in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion and David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch; language and gender in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game; Platonic idealism in Chris Marker's La Jetee; race in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam; the concept of the imagination in cognitive film theory; and the role of ideology in feminist film theory.Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2002-08-19
Mått152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt367 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor249
FörlagMcFarland & Co Inc
ISBN9780786413201

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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction Losing the Plot: Narrative Form and Ethical Identity in Lost Highway The Order of Rage: Epistemology and the Need for Knowledge in Paul Schrader’s Affliction The End of Suspicion: Hitchcock, Descartes, and Joan Fontaine Ordinary, Extraordinary, Real and True: Negotiating the Boundaries in Naked Lunch The Anti-Metaphysics Game: A Wittgensteinian Reading of The Crying Game Platonic Themes in La Jetée Persistent Ambiguity and Moral Responsibility in Rashomon Citizen Kant: Themes of Consciousness and Cognition in Citizen Kane Epistemology and the Philosophy of Cinema Is It All in Our Imagination? Questioning the Use of the Concept of the Imagination in Cognitive Film Theory The Epistemology of Race and Black American Film Noir: Summer of Sam as Lynching Parable Feminist Film Theory as Ideology Critique It’s All Ideology, Isn’t It? Film, Feminism, and Ideology: A Reply to Daniel Shaw and Cynthia Freeland About the Contributors 223Index