Philosophy of the Film

• Preface, Acknowledgments, Introduction: On the Very Idea of a Philosophy of the Film: Casablanca, 1. Philosophy of the Film, 2. Film as Philosophy, 3. Casablanca as Philosophy, 4. Conclusion, Part One. Movies as a Philosophical Problem, 1. Knowledge and Existence, 2. Plato and the Cave, 3. TheGoldenMountain, USD A Approval and Realism, 4. Films and Academic Philosophy, Part Two. Movies as an Aesthetic Problem, 5. Art and Science, 6. Aesthetics and Essentialism, 7. Arguments Against Films as Art, 8. Films as Art, Part Three. Philosophical Problems on Film, 9. Philosophy, 10. Popular Philosophy, 11. On Interpretation, 12. Citizen Kane and the Essence of a Person, 13. Rashomon: Is Truth Relative?, 14. Persona: The Person as a Mask, 15. Woody Allen and the Search for Moral Integrity, Conclusion, Notes, Bibliography, Index of Subjects, Index of Names

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