Thinking Through Cinema: Film as Philosophy

Preface.
<p>Murray Smith and Thomas E. Wartenberg – Introduction.</p>
<p>I. The Very Idea of Film as Philosophy.</p>
<p>Paisley Livingston – These on Cinema as Philosophy.</p>
<p>Thomas E. Wartenberg – Beyond mere Illustration: How Films Can Be Philosophy.</p>
<p>Murray Smith – Film Art, Argument, and Ambiguity.</p>
<p>II. Popular American Film: Entertainment and Enlightenment.</p>
<p>Richard Allen – Hitchcock and Cavell.</p>
<p>Lester H. Hunt The Paradox of the Unknown Lover: A Reading of Letter from an Unknown Woman.</p>
<p>Dan Flory – Spike Lee and the Sympathetic Racist.′.</p>
<p>George Wilson – Transparency and Twist in Narrative Fiction Film.</p>
<p>Stephen Mulhall – The Impersonation of Personality: Film as Philosophy in Mission: Impossible.</p>
<p>Daniel Shaw – On being Philosophical and Being John Malkovich.</p>
<p>Christopher Grau – eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Morality of Memory.</p>
<p>III: Continental Philosophy, Continental Film.</p>
<p>Andras Balint Kovacs Sartre, the Philosophy of Nothingness, and the Modern Melodrama.</p>
<p>Paul C. Santilli – Cinema and Subjectivity in Krzysztof Kieslowski.</p>
<p>Katherine Ince – Is Sexy Comedy or Tragedy? Directing Desire adn Female Auteurship in the Cinema of Catherine Breillat.</p>
<p>IV: Films as "THEORY": The Avant –Garde.</p>
<p>Jinhee Choi Apperception on Display: Structural Films and Philosophy.</p>
<p>Noel Carroll philosophizing Through the Moving Image: The case of Serene Velocity.</p>
<p>Trevor Ponech – The Substance of Cinema.</p>
<p>Whitney Davis – The World Rewound: Peter Forgacs′s Wittgenstein Tractatus.</p>
<p>Contributors.</p>
<p>Selected Bibliography.</p>
<p>Index.</p>