The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film - Paperback

by Paisley Livingston (Editor), Carl Plantinga (Editor)

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film

• issues and concepts
• authors and trends
• genres
• film as philosophy.

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 Memento.

Each chapter includes a section of annotated further reading and is cross-referenced to related entries.

Author Biography

Paisley Livingston is Professor of Philosophy at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. He is the author of Art and Intention: A Philosophical Study, and coeditor (with Berys Gaut) of The Creation of Art: New Essays in Philosophical Aesthetics.
Carl Plantinga is Professor of Film Studies in the Communication Arts and Sciences Department at Calvin College, USA. He is the author of Rhetoric and Representation in Nonfiction Film, and coeditor (with Greg M. Smith) of Passionate Views: Film, Cognition and Emotion.