This handbook brings together essays in the philosophy of film and motion pictures from authorities across the spectrum. It boasts contributions from philosophers and film theorists alike, with many essays employing pluralist approaches to this interdisciplinary subject. Core areas treated include film ontology, film structure, psychology, authorship, narrative, and viewer emotion. Emerging areas of interest, including virtual reality, video games, and nonfictional and autobiographical film also have dedicated chapters. Other areas of focus include the film medium's intersection with contemporary social issues, film's kinship to other art forms, and the influence of historically seminal schools of thought in the philosophy of film. Of emphasis in many of the essays is the relationship and overlap of analytic and continental perspectives in this subject.
The Medium in Film and Motion Pictures 1.Frank Boardman - Film Ontology: Extension, Criteria, and Candidates 2. Noel Carroll - Medium Specificity 3. Nick Wiltsher and Aaron Meskin- The Moving Image 4. Patrick Keating - The Art of Cinematography The Structure of Film and Motion Pictures 5. Angela Curran - Silly Questions and Arguments for the Implicit, Cinematic Narrator 6. Patrick Keating - Narrative and the Moving Image 7. Karen Pearlman - On Rhythm in Film Editing 8. David Davies - Animation 9. Paloma Atencia-Linares - Sound in Film 10. Ted Nannicelli - What is a Screenplay? Approaches and Schools 11. Richard Eldridge - Analytic Philosophy of Film (Contrasted with Continental Film Theory) 12. John O Maoilearca - When the Twain Shall Meet: On the Divide between Analytic and Continental Film Philosophy 13. Shawn Loht - The Phenomenological Movement in Context of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures 14. Espen Hammer - Ideology and Experience: The Legacy of Critical Theory 15. Paul Guyer - Stanley Cavell: What Becomes of People on Film? 16. Deborah Knight - Film Art from the Analytic Perspective 17. Carl Plantinga - Cognitive Theory of the Moving Image 18. Andrew Klevan - Aesthetic Criticism 19. Robert Sinnerbrink - Poststructuralism and Film Philosophy Through Film 20. Eva M. Dadlez - Thoughtful Films, Thoughtful Fictions: The Philosophical Terrain between Illustrations and Thought Experiments 21. Thomas E. Wartenberg - Contemporary Philosophical Filmmaking 22. Robert Sinnerbrink - Filmosophy/Film as Philosophy Auteur Theory, the Avant-garde and New Filmmakers 23. Douglas Lackey - The Auteur Theory in the Age of the Mini-Series 24. Tom Gunning - The Question of Poetic Cinema 25. Malcolm Turvey - Avant-garde Film as Philosophy Documentary 26. Vitor Moura - Show and Tell: The identification of documentary film 27. Laura T. Di Summa - The Autobiographical Documentary Movies and Society 28. Zoe Cunliffe - Feminist Philosophy of Film 29. Lewis R. Gordon- Race in Film 30. David A. Gerstner - How Do We Look So Far? Notes Toward a Queer-Film Philosophy 31. Jacob M. Held - Film, Art, and Pornography 32. Sheryl Tuttle Ross - Propaganda and the Moving Image Movies and the Arts 33. Kristin Boyce - Film and Fine Art: Automatism, Automata and The Myth of Total Cinema in The Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffmann 34. John Dyck - The Sonic Art of Film and the Sonic Arts in Film 35. Garry L. Hagberg - Adaptation, Translation, and Philosophical Investigation in Adaptation Emotions and Psychology 36. Jonathan Gilmore - Imagination and Film 37. Daniel Jeronimo Tobon- Empathy and Sympathy: Two Contemporary Models of Character Engagement 38. Jesse J. Prinz - Affect and Motion Pictures 39. Nick Pappas - Psychoanalysis and the Philosophy of Film Alternative Media 40. Ted Nannicelli - The Television Medium 41. Jon Robson and Aaron Meskin - Video games and Film 42. Gal Raz - Virtual Reality as an Emerging Art Medium and its Immersive Affordances
