Tuitions and Intuitions

<p><b>Makes the case that philosophy has an essential role to play in the serious study of film.</b></p><p>William Rothman has long been considered one of the seminal figures in the field of film-philosophy. From his landmark book <i>Hitchcock: The Murderous Gaze</i> now in its second edition to the essays collected here in <i>Tuitions and Intuitions</i> Rothman has been guided by two intuitions: first that his kind of film criticism is philosophy; and second that such a marriage of criticism and philosophy has an essential part to play in the serious study of film. In this book he aspires borrowing a formulation from Emerson to pay the tuition for these intuitions.</p><p>Thoughtful philosophically sophisticated and provocative the essays included here address a wide range of films including classical Hollywood movies; the work of auteur directors like Alfred Hitchcock George Cukor Yasujir? Ozu and Woody Allen; performances by John Barrymore and James Stewart; unconventional works by Jean Genet Chantal Akerman Terrence Malick and the Dardenne brothers; the television series <i>Justified</i>; and documentaries by Jean Rouch Ross McElwee and Robert Gardner. All the essays address questions of philosophical significance and taken together manifest Rothman's lifelong commitment when writing about a film to respect the film's own ideas; to remain open to the film's ways of expressing its ideas; and to let the film help teach him how to view it how to think about it and how to discover what he has at heart to say about it.</p>