Michael Frank wrote:
so it makes sense to ask [and this is not a high school question] whether cinema can be a medium not merely for illustrating a philosophical claim but actually for making one
To be even clearer, must the philosophical claim be a novel one, or just a retatement of an established claim? Can films give good reasons for such claims, novel or otherwise, by cinematic means, without actually stating the argument(s) explicitly?
The forthcoming Volume 13 of Film and Philosophy, a Special Interest Edition on teaching philosophy through film, has several articles that address these very issues...more details soon.
"For beauty is the beginning of terror we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us" Rilke's First Duino Elegy
Daniel Shaw
Professor of Philosophy and Film
Lock Haven University
Managing Editor, Film and Philosophy
website: www.lhup.edu/dshaw
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