Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film

<p><em>The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film</em> is the first comprehensive volume to explore the main themes, topics, thinkers and issues in philosophy and film. The <em>Companion</em> features sixty specially commissioned chapters from international scholars and is divided into four clear parts: </p><p>• issues and concepts <br>• authors and trends <br>• genres <br>• film as philosophy. </p><p>Part one is a comprehensive section examining key concepts, including chapters on acting, censorship, character, depiction, ethics, genre, interpretation, narrative, reception and spectatorship and style. Part two covers authors and scholars of film and significant theories Part three examines genres such as documentary, experimental cinema, horror, comedy and tragedy. Part four includes chapters on key directors such as Tarkovsky, Bergman and Terrence Malick and on particular films including <em>Memento</em>. </p><p>Each chapter includes a section of annotated further reading and is cross-referenced to related entries.</p><p><em>The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film</em> is essential reading for anyone interested in philosophy of film, aesthetics and film and cinema studies. </p> <p><strong>Part 1: Issues and Concepts</strong> 1. Acting <em>Johannes Riis</em> 2. Authorship <em>Aaron Meskin</em> 3. Censorship <em>Susan Dwyer</em> 4. Consciousness <em>Murray Smith</em> 5. Definition of 'Cinema' <em>Trevor Ponech</em> 6. Depiction <em>Robert Hopkins</em> 7. Digital Cinema <em>Berys Gaut</em> 8. Emotion and Affect <em>Carl Plantinga</em> 9. Empathy and Character Engagement <em>Amy Coplan</em> 10. Ethics <em>Folke Tersman</em> 11. Film as Art <em>Robert Stecker</em> 12. Formalism <em>Katherine Thomson-Jones</em> 13. Gender <em>Angela Curran</em> and <em>Carol Donelan</em> 14. Genre <em>Brian Laetz</em> and <em>Dominic McIver Lopes</em> 15. Interpretation <em>George Wilson</em> 16. Medium <em>Kevin Sweeney</em> 17. Music <em>Jeff Smith</em> 18. Narration <em>Noël Carroll</em> 19. Narrative Closure <em>Noël Carroll</em> 20. Ontology <em>David Davies</em> 21. Race <em>Dan Flory</em> 22. Realism <em>Andrew Kania</em> 23. Spectatorship <em>Carl Plantinga</em> 24. Sound <em>Giorgio Biancorosso</em> 25. Style <em>Noël Carroll</em> 26. Violence <em>Stephen Prince</em> <strong>Part 2: Authors and Trends </strong>27. Rudolph Arnheim <em>Jinhee Choi</em> 28. Walter Benjamin <em>Stéphane Symons</em> 29. David Bordwell <em>Patrick Colm Hogan</em> 30. Bertolt Brecht <em>Angela Curran</em> 31. Noël Carroll <em>Jonathan Frome</em> 32. Stanley Cavell <em>William Rothman</em> 33. Cognitive Theory <em>David Bordwell</em> 34. Gilles Deleuze <em>Ronald Bogue</em> 35. Sergei Eisenstein <em>David Bordwell</em> 36. Christian Metz <em>Francesco Casetti</em> 37. Jean Mitry <em>Brian Lewis</em> 38. Edgar Morin <em>Dudley Andrew</em> 39. Hugo Munsterberg <em>Don Fredericksen</em> 40. Phenomenology <em>Vivian Sobchack</em> 41. Psychoanalysis <em>Richard Allen</em> 42. Semiotics and Semiology <em>Joseph Kickasola</em> 43. Ludwig Wittgenstein <em>Malcolm Turvey</em> <strong>Part 3: Genres and Other Types </strong>44. Dogme 95 <em>Mette Hjort</em> 45. Documentary <em>Carl Plantinga</em> 46. Horror <em>Aaron Smuts</em> 47. Pornography <em>Susan Dwyer</em> 48. Avant-garde Film <em>Maureen Turim</em> 49. Tragedy and Comedy <em>Deborah Knight</em> <strong>Part 4: Film as Philosophy</strong> 50. Film as Philosophy <em>Thomas E. Wartenberg </em> 51. Ingmar Bergman <em>Paisley Livingston</em> 52. Terrence Malick <em>David Davies</em> 53. Andrei Tarkovsky <em>András Bálint Kovács</em> 54. Why Be Moral? <em>Christopher Falzon</em> 55. Skepticism <em>Richard Fumerton</em> 56. Personal Identity <em>Deborah Knight</em> 57. Practical Wisdom and the Good Ground of Gettysburg <em>Joseph Kupfer</em> 58. The Five Obstructions <em>Mette Hjort</em> 59. Gattaca <em>Neven Sesardic</em> 60. Memento <em>Andrew Kania</em></p>