Film and Knowledge

Essays on the Integration of Images and Ideas
Herausgeber: Stoehr, Kevin L.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Film has become such an underpinning of art and pop culture that its potential for inspiring serious thought is often overlooked. Our intellectual involvement with film has been minimized as more in the audience want to be merely amazed and entertained. Essays written by both established and cutting-edge philosophers of film concentrate in this work on the value of film in general and the value of certain films in particular for the study and teaching of ideas. The essays explore such topics as the significance of narrative unity for self knowledge in David Lynch's Lost Highway and in Paul Schrader's Affliction; ambiguity and responsibility in Akira Kurosawa's Rashomon; consciousness and cognition in Orson Welles's Citizen Kane; skepticism in Alfred Hitchcock's Suspicion and David Cronenberg's Naked Lunch; language and gender in Neil Jordan's The Crying Game; Platonic idealism in Chris Marker's La Jetee; race in Spike Lee's Summer of Sam; the concept of the imagination in cognitive film theory; and the role of ideology in feminist film theory. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 412g
• ISBN-13: 9780786413201
• ISBN-10: 0786413204
• Artikelnr.: 22311525

Autorenporträt

Kevin L. Stoehr is an associate professor of humanities and the chair of the Division of Humanities in the College of General Studies at Boston University. He lives in Wells, Maine.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments   
Introduction   
Losing the Plot: Narrative Form and Ethical Identity in Lost Highway   
The Order of Rage: Epistemology and the Need for Knowledge in Paul
Schrader's Affliction   
The End of Suspicion: Hitchcock, Descartes, and Joan Fontaine   
Ordinary, Extraordinary, Real and True: Negotiating the Boundaries in
Naked Lunch  
The Anti-Metaphysics Game: A Wittgensteinian Reading of The Crying Game   
Platonic Themes in La Jetée   
Persistent Ambiguity and Moral Responsibility in Rashomon   
Citizen Kant: Themes of Consciousness and Cognition in Citizen Kane   
Epistemology and the Philosophy of Cinema   
Is It All in Our Imagination? Questioning the Use of the Concept of the
Imagination in Cognitive Film Theory   
The Epistemology of Race and Black American Film Noir: Summer of Sam as
Lynching Parable   
Feminist Film Theory as Ideology Critique   
It's All Ideology, Isn't It?   
Film, Feminism, and Ideology: A Reply to Daniel Shaw and Cynthia
Freeland   
About the Contributors   223
Index