There is a distinction between "Philosophy in. . ." -- looking at
films for philosophical themes -- and "Philosophy of. . ." which
involves a philosophical analysis of the medium itself. I suspect that
most of the articles in these books are in the former category. Then
there are the different schools of philosophy. What Noel Carroll does as
philosophy of film is going to be very different than the approach of a
Deleuzian. But it gets more fine-grained than that and becomes very
confusing. Carroll has called aspects of his approach cognitive and
someone like me also might call the approach I favor cognitive, but when
I teach Carroll (at length in a horror film course I sometime teach) I
argue against his intellectualist/propositionalist approach at almost
point. So I don't think there will be any possible agreement on what is
film/philosophy philosophical film, or whatever. The best thing might be
to be very specific about what you mean in a particular case and go on
from there.
When I taught film course in the film studies department a few years ago
it was great relief: brought philosophy in but there was no
responsibility to do so at any particular point.
j
On 10/11/10 8:41 PM, Chuck Kleinhans wrote:
> For all the talk of Film and Philosophy here, it doesn't seem that
> anyone refers to books like these:
>
> Mark T. Conrad, ed. The Philosophy of the Coen Brothers
> Dean A. Kowalski, ed. The Philosophy of the X Files (updated edition)
> Jerrold J. Abrams, ed. The Philosophy of Stanley Kubrick
> Mark T. Conrad, ed. The Philosophy of Neo-Noir
>
> None of these titles mentions Deleuze....does that make them off
> limits? unfashionable?
> But a couple do make a reference to Derrida, Aristotle, Descartes,
> Wittgenstein
>
> perhaps they have been discussed in earlier threads and I just missed
> it....does anyone recall that?
>
> Chuck Kleinhans
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