The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures , 1st ed. 2019

This handbook brings together essays in the philosophy of film and motion pictures from authorities across the spectrum. It boasts contributions from philosophers and film theorists alike, with many essays employing pluralist approaches to this interdisciplinary subject. Core areas treated include film ontology, film structure, psychology, authorship, narrative, and viewer emotion. Emerging areas of interest, including virtual reality, video games, and nonfictional and autobiographical film also have dedicated chapters. Other areas of focus include the film medium?s intersection with contemporary social issues, film?s kinship to other art forms, and the influence of historically seminal schools of thought in the philosophy of film. Of emphasis in many of the essays is the relationship and overlap of analytic and continental perspectives in this subject.

The Medium in Film and Motion Pictures

1.Frank Boardman – Film Ontology: Extension, Criteria, and Candidates

2. Noël Carroll – Medium Specificity

3. Nick Wiltsher and Aaron Meskin– The Moving Image

4. Patrick Keating – The Art of Cinematography

The Structure of Film and Motion Pictures

5. Angela Curran – Silly Questions and Arguments for the Implicit, Cinematic Narrator

6. Patrick Keating – Narrative and the Moving Image

7. Karen Pearlman – On Rhythm in Film Editing

8. David Davies – Animation

9. Paloma Atencia-Linares – Sound in Film

10. Ted Nannicelli – What is a Screenplay?

Approaches and Schools

11. Richard Eldridge – Analytic Philosophy of Film (Contrasted with Continental Film Theory)

12. John Ó Maoilearca – When the Twain Shall Meet: On the Divide between Analytic and Continental Film Philosophy

13. Shawn Loht – The Phenomenological Movement in Context of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures

14. Espen Hammer – Ideology and Experience: The Legacy of Critical Theory

15. Paul Guyer – Stanley Cavell: What Becomes of People on Film?

16. Deborah Knight – Film Art from the Analytic Perspective

17. Carl Plantinga – Cognitive Theory of the Moving Image

18. Andrew Klevan – Aesthetic Criticism

19. Robert Sinnerbrink – Poststructuralism and Film

Philosophy Through Film

20. Eva M. Dadlez – Thoughtful Films, Thoughtful Fictions: The Philosophical Terrain between Illustrations and Thought Experiments

21. Thomas E. Wartenberg – Contemporary Philosophical Filmmaking

22. Robert Sinnerbrink – Filmosophy/Film as Philosophy

Auteur Theory, the Avant-garde and New Filmmakers

24. Tom Gunning – The Question of Poetic Cinema

25. Malcolm Turvey – Avant-garde Film as Philosophy

Documentary

26. Vitor Moura – Show and Tell: The identification of documentary film

27. Laura T. Di Summa – The Autobiographical Documentary

Movies and Society

28. Zoë Cunliffe – Feminist Philosophy of Film

29. Lewis R. Gordon– Race in Film

30. David A. Gerstner – How Do We Look So Far? Notes Toward a Queer-Film Philosophy

31. Jacob M. Held – Film, Art, and Pornography

32. Sheryl Tuttle Ross – Propaganda and the Moving Image

Movies and the Arts

33. Kristin Boyce – Film and Fine Art: Automatism, Automata and “The Myth of Total Cinema” in The Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffmann

34. John Dyck – The Sonic Art of Film and the Sonic Arts in Film

35. Garry L. Hagberg – Adaptation, Translation, and Philosophical Investigation in Adaptation

Emotions and Psychology

36. Jonathan Gilmore – Imagination and Film

37. Daniel Jerónimo Tobón– Empathy and Sympathy: Two Contemporary Models of Character Engagement

38. Jesse J. Prinz – Affect and Motion Pictures

39. Nick Pappas – Psychoanalysis and the Philosophy of Film

Alternative Media

40. Ted Nannicelli – The Television Medium

41. Jon Robson and Aaron Meskin – Video games and Film

42. Gal Raz – Virtual Reality as an Emerging Art Medium and its Immersive Affordances

Noël Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of CUNY, USA.

Laura T. Di Summa-Knoop is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at William Paterson University, USA.

Shawn Loht is an Institutional Researcher at Baton Rouge Community College, USA.

Includes a Foreword by Errol Morris

Conversant in the literature of both philosophy and cinema studies

Includes chapters written by some of the most influential researchers in the philosophy of motion pictures

Covers both core and emerging areas