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This title gives a critical exploration of analytic and Continental philosophies of film, which puts film-philosophy into practice with detailed discussions of three filmmakers. The relationship between film and philosophy has become a topic of intense intellectual interest. But how should we understand this relationship? Can philosophy renew our understanding of film? Can film challenge or even transform how we understand philosophy? "New Philosophies of Film" explores these questions in relation to both analytic and Continental philosophies of film, arguing that the best way to overcome the mutual antagonism between these approaches is by constructing a more pluralist film-philosophy grounded in detailed engagement with particular films and filmmakers. Sinnerbrink not only provides lucid critical analyses of the exciting developments and contentious debates in the new philosophies of film, but also showcases how a pluralist film-philosophy works in the case of three challenging contemporary filmmakers: Terrence Malick, David Lynch, and Lars von Trier. "New Philosophies of Film" thus puts interdisciplinary inquiry on film and philosophy into practice, and should be of great interest to students and researchers working across the disciplines of philosophy, film theory, and cultural studies.
A critical exploration of analytic and Continental philosophies of film, which puts film-philosophy into practice with detailed discussions of three filmmakers.
About the Author
Robert Sinnerbrink is Lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University, Australia. He is the author of Understanding Hegelianism (Acumen, 2007), and co-editor of Critique Today (Brill, 2006), and published articles on Malick, Lynch, and von Trier in journals including Film-Philosophy, Projections: The Journal of Movies and Mind, and Senses of Cinema.
Reviews
Both an excellent introduction and an original contribution to the field, New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images covers a large range of theoretical positions with impressive adroitness. By offering incisive philosophical analyses alongside brilliant film readings, Sinnerbrink achieves that rare thing, a true marriage of the abstract and the concrete that will be of huge value to scholars and students alike. Professor John Mullarkey, Kingston University, London, UK -- Professor John Mullarkey
Robert Sinnerbrink's New Philosophies of Film is a captivating, challenging, smart, and highly readable exploration of the aesthetic encounter between cinema and philosophy. As an introduction to the recent philosophical turn in film studies, the book offers a rich and insightful critical perspective on many influential developments in film theory such as cognitivism. As a contribution to the emerging field of philosophical engagement with film New Philosophies of Film shows that films can do more than just illustrate or serve as metaphors for philosophical ideas. Films are philosophically valuable in themselves insofar as they can engage in philosophizing as 'thinking agents'. Furthermore, films can invite us to invest in them philosophically, to meet them in dialogue as philosophical discussion partners. This idea comes alive in Sinnerbrink's exceptionally vivid examples, in which he analyzes the philosophical-aesthetic receptivity to the work of such filmmakers such as David Lynch, Lars von Trier and Terrence Malick. This book is a 'must read' not only for philosophers and film scholars, but also for anyone seriously enthusiastic about cinema. Tarja Laine, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
New Philosophies of Film is an ambitious attempt to overcome the Analytic-Continental divide in theorizing about film and to develop a new understanding of the relationship between film and philosophy. Beginning with a critical overview of recent developments in the philosophy of film and ending with interpretations that present film as a new mode of thinking, this book breaks new ground and will have to be reckoned with by anyone interested in film and philosophy. Thomas E Wartenberg, Professor of Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA.
A valuable book for advanced students and scholars in film studies/film theory, and for philosophers concerned with the art of film. * Choice *
A body of philosophical work has begun to accumulate around the provocation of cinema. Sinnerbrink enters the fray as a critical narrator of the history of this burgeoning philosophical enterprise as well as a participant in it and, in my judgment, makes an important contribution on both accounts. -- Jason M. Wirth, Seattle University, USA * Notre Dame Philosophical Review *
Sinnerbrink's book will add a dose of welcome scepticism to anyone embarking on the consideration of some recent developments in anglophone film studies... Sinnerbrink injects life into his consideration of the cognitivists by means of adroit illustration from examples of his own choosing which display a cinephile's reservoir of resources - not always something that can be said of commentators content to use the same filmic examples as do their sources. This aspect is one of the many pleasures of Sinnerbrink's addition to the growing body of work in this field. -- Garin Dowd * Radical Philosophy *
Book Information
ISBN 9781441153432
Author Dr Robert Sinnerbrink
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publisher Continuum Publishing Corporation
Weight(grams) 338g
A critical exploration of analytic and Continental philosophies of film, which puts film-philosophy into practice with detailed discussions of three filmmakers.
About the Author
Robert Sinnerbrink is Lecturer in Philosophy at Macquarie University, Australia. He is the author of Understanding Hegelianism (Acumen, 2007), and co-editor of Critique Today (Brill, 2006), and published articles on Malick, Lynch, and von Trier in journals including Film-Philosophy, Projections: The Journal of Movies and Mind, and Senses of Cinema.
Reviews
Both an excellent introduction and an original contribution to the field, New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images covers a large range of theoretical positions with impressive adroitness. By offering incisive philosophical analyses alongside brilliant film readings, Sinnerbrink achieves that rare thing, a true marriage of the abstract and the concrete that will be of huge value to scholars and students alike. Professor John Mullarkey, Kingston University, London, UK -- Professor John Mullarkey
Robert Sinnerbrink's New Philosophies of Film is a captivating, challenging, smart, and highly readable exploration of the aesthetic encounter between cinema and philosophy. As an introduction to the recent philosophical turn in film studies, the book offers a rich and insightful critical perspective on many influential developments in film theory such as cognitivism. As a contribution to the emerging field of philosophical engagement with film New Philosophies of Film shows that films can do more than just illustrate or serve as metaphors for philosophical ideas. Films are philosophically valuable in themselves insofar as they can engage in philosophizing as 'thinking agents'. Furthermore, films can invite us to invest in them philosophically, to meet them in dialogue as philosophical discussion partners. This idea comes alive in Sinnerbrink's exceptionally vivid examples, in which he analyzes the philosophical-aesthetic receptivity to the work of such filmmakers such as David Lynch, Lars von Trier and Terrence Malick. This book is a 'must read' not only for philosophers and film scholars, but also for anyone seriously enthusiastic about cinema. Tarja Laine, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
New Philosophies of Film is an ambitious attempt to overcome the Analytic-Continental divide in theorizing about film and to develop a new understanding of the relationship between film and philosophy. Beginning with a critical overview of recent developments in the philosophy of film and ending with interpretations that present film as a new mode of thinking, this book breaks new ground and will have to be reckoned with by anyone interested in film and philosophy. Thomas E Wartenberg, Professor of Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College, Massachusetts, USA.
A valuable book for advanced students and scholars in film studies/film theory, and for philosophers concerned with the art of film. * Choice *
A body of philosophical work has begun to accumulate around the provocation of cinema. Sinnerbrink enters the fray as a critical narrator of the history of this burgeoning philosophical enterprise as well as a participant in it and, in my judgment, makes an important contribution on both accounts. -- Jason M. Wirth, Seattle University, USA * Notre Dame Philosophical Review *
Sinnerbrink's book will add a dose of welcome scepticism to anyone embarking on the consideration of some recent developments in anglophone film studies... Sinnerbrink injects life into his consideration of the cognitivists by means of adroit illustration from examples of his own choosing which display a cinephile's reservoir of resources - not always something that can be said of commentators content to use the same filmic examples as do their sources. This aspect is one of the many pleasures of Sinnerbrink's addition to the growing body of work in this field. -- Garin Dowd * Radical Philosophy *
Book Information
ISBN 9781441153432
Author Dr Robert Sinnerbrink
Format Paperback
Page Count 264
Imprint Continuum Publishing Corporation
Publisher Continuum Publishing Corporation
Weight(grams) 338g
