Conversant in the literature of both philosophy and cinema studies, this book includes chapters written by some of the most influential researchers in the philosophy of motion pictures and covers both core and emerging areas.

Table of Contents

• Part I. The Medium in Film and Motion Pictures
• 1. Film Ontology: Extension, Criteria and Candidates - Frank Boardman
• 2. Medium Specificity - Noël Carroll
• 3. The Moving Image - Nick Wiltsher and Aaron Meskin
• 4. The Art of Cinematography - Patrick Keating
• Part II. The Structure of Film and Motion Pictures
• 5. Silly Questions and Arguments for the Implicit, Cinematic Narrator - Angela Curran
• 6. Narrative and the Moving Image - Patrick Keating
• 7. On Rhythm in Film Editing - Karen Pearlman
• 8. Animation - David Davies
• 9. Sound in Film - Paloma Atencia-Linares
• 10. What Is a Screenplay? - Ted Nannicelli
• Part III. Approaches and Schools
• 11. Analytic Philosophy of Film: (Contrasted with Continental Film Theory) - Richard Eldridge
• 12. When the Twain Shall Meet: On the Divide Between Analytic and Continental Film Philosophy - John Ó Maoilearca
• 13. The Phenomenological Movement in Context of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures - Shawn Loht
• 14. Ideology and Experience: The Legacy of Critical Theory - Espen Hammer
• 15. Stanley Cavell: What Becomes of People on Film? - Paul Guyer
• 16. Film Art from the Analytic Perspective - Deborah Knight
• 17. Cognitive Theory of the Moving Image - Carl Plantinga
• 18. Aesthetic Criticism - Andrew Klevan
• 19. Poststructuralism and Film - Robert Sinnerbrink
• Part IV. Philosophy Through Film
• 20. Thoughtful Films, Thoughtful Fictions: The Philosophical Terrain Between Illustrations and Thought Experiments - E. M. Dadlez
• 21. Contemporary Philosophical Filmmaking - Thomas E. Wartenberg
• 22. Filmosophy/Film as Philosophy - Robert Sinnerbrink
• Part V. Auteur Theory, the Avant-Garde and New Filmmakers
• 23. The Auteur Theory in the Age of the Mini-Series - Douglas Lackey
• 24. The Question of Poetic Cinema - Tom Gunning
• 25. Avant-Garde Films as Philosophy - Malcolm Turvey
• Part VI. Documentary
• 26. Show and Tell: The Identification of Documentary Film - Vitor Moura
• 27. The Autobiographical Documentary - Laura T. Di Summa
• Part VII. Movies and Society
• 28. Feminist Philosophy of Film - Zoë Cunliffe
• 29. Race in Film - Lewis R. Gordon
• 30. How Do We Look So Far? Notes Toward a Queer-Film Philosophy - David A. Gerstner
• 31. Film, Art, and Pornography - Jacob M. Held
• 32. Propaganda and the Moving Image - Sheryl Tuttle Ross
• Part VIII. Movies and the Arts
• 33. Film and Fine Art: Automatism, Automata and “The Myth of Total Cinema” in The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffmann - Kristin Boyce
• 34. The Sonic Art of Film and the Sonic Arts in Film - John Dyck
• 35. Adaptation, Translation, and Philosophical Investigation in Adaptation - Garry L. Hagberg
• Part IX. Emotions and Psychology
• 36. Imagination and Film - Jonathan Gilmore
• 37. Empathy and Sympathy: Two Contemporary Models of Character Engagement - Daniel Jerónimo Tobón
• 38. Affect and Motion Pictures - Jesse Prinz
• 39. Psychoanalysis and the Philosophy of Film - Nickolas Pappas
• Part X. Alternative Media
• 40. The Television Medium - Ted Nannicelli
• 41. Videogames and Film - Jon Robson and Aaron Meskin
• 42. Virtual Reality as an Emerging Art Medium and Its Immersive Affordances - Gal Raz