A series of essays on film and philosophy whose authors - philosophers or film studies experts - write on a wide variety of films: classic Hollywood comedies, war films, Eastern European art films, science fiction, showing how film and watching it can not only illuminate philosophy but, in an important sense, be doing philosophy. The book is crowned with an interview with Wittgensteinian philosopher Stanley Cavell, discussing his interests in philosophy and in film and how they can come together.

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NANCY BAUER Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Tufts University, USA SIMON CRITCHLEY Professor of Philosophy, New School for Social Research, USA SIMON GLENDINNING Fellow in European Philosophy, European Institute, London School of Economics, UK STUART KLAWANS Film Critic, The Nation ANDREW KLEVAN Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Kent, UK PHIL HUTCHINSON Researcher STEPHEN MULHALL Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, New College, Oxford, UK DAVID RUDRUM Lecturer, Goldsmiths College, University of London

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List of Plates Preface Notes on Contributors Introduction I: A Philosopher Goes to the Cinema; J.Goodenough Introduction II: What Theory of Film do Wittgenstein and Cavell have ?; R.Read PART I: ESSAYS Cogito Ergo Film: Plato, Descartes and Fight Club ; N.Bauer In Space No-one can Hear you Scream; S.Mulhall Memento : A Philosophical Investigation; P.Hutchinson & R.Read The Everydayness of Don Giovanni; S.Glendinning Silent Dialogue: Philosophizing with Jan Svankmajer; D.Rudrum Calm: On Terence Malik's The Thin Red Line ; S.Critchley Habitual Remarriage: The Ends of Happiness in The Palm Beach Story ; S.Klawans PART II: INTERVIEW What Becomes of Thinking on Film?: Stanley Cavell in Conversation with Andrew Klevan Bibliography Index