> as a quick first approximation:
>
> film theory is about film, and how ideas make film intelligible
>
> film philosophy is about ideas, and how film transforms ideas,
> renders them accessible etc.
That seems like a workable definition. So I guess this makes someone
like Zizek not a film theorist, but a film philosopher, as his
elucidations are never really concerned to make the films he (ab)uses
more accessible, but the ideas he tries to illustrate through film.
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