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Philosophy through Film Amy Karofsky 9781032544595
RRP: €58.30SciFier: €56.17Apologies no description as yet for this book is available. We are dedicated to providing you with an extensive selection of science fiction books from a variety of authors and publishers. Our... -
Race, Philosophy, and Film Mary K. Bloodsworth-Lugo 9781138921900
SciFier: €57.19This collection fills a gap in the current literature in philosophy and film by focusing on the question: How would thinking in philosophy and film be transformed if race were formally incorporated... -
Philosophy and Film: Bridging Divides Christina Rawls 9781032092959
SciFier: €50.81This volume collects twenty original essays on the philosophy of film. It uniquely brings together scholars working across a range of philosophical traditions and academic disciplines to broaden and... -
New Philosophies of Film: An Introduction to Cinema as a Way of Thinking Dr Robert Sinnerbrink 9781350181922
SciFier: €33.01What can philosophy teach us about cinema? Can cinema transform how we understand philosophy? How should we describe the competing approaches to philosophizing on film? New Philosophies of Film... -
New Philosophies of Film: An Introduction to Cinema as a Way of Thinking Dr Robert Sinnerbrink 9781350181939
SciFier: €93.40What can philosophy teach us about cinema? Can cinema transform how we understand philosophy? How should we describe the competing approaches to philosophizing on film? New Philosophies of Film... -
New Philosophies of Film: Thinking Images Dr Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University, Australia) 9781441153432
SciFier: €41.64This title gives a critical exploration of analytic and Continental philosophies of film, which puts film-philosophy into practice with detailed discussions of three filmmakers. The relationship... -
Klein, Sartre and Imagination in the Films of Ingmar Bergman Dan Williams 9781137471970
SciFier: €55.92This book explores connections between the diverse ideas of Melanie Klein, Jean-Paul Sartre and Ingmar Bergman. These ideas are explored in relation to their shared focus on imagination and through... -
Film and Faith by Micah Watson, long-time policy analyst
SciFier: €99.35Film and Faith: Modern Cinema and the Struggle to Believe explores religious themes in contemporary film with a focus on recent depictions of religion's continuing manifestations in a secularizing... -
Bergman Obscure: Unknown Films, Strange Encounters Torgeir Fjeld 9783032136213
RRP: €53.54SciFier: €48.18This open access book presents a dozen academic essays that variously discuss obscure films by Ingmar Bergman, or hitherto hidden characteristics of his work. This collection features chapters on... -
Klein, Sartre and Imagination in the Films of Ingmar Bergman Dan Williams 9781349564743
SciFier: €55.92This book explores connections between the diverse ideas of Melanie Klein, Jean-Paul Sartre and Ingmar Bergman. These ideas are explored in relation to their shared focus on imagination and through... -
Historical Dictionary of Woody Allen by William Brigham
SciFier: €117.20Woody Allen has accomplished that which no American filmmaker in the modern era has or perhaps ever will: directing to date 49 films (47 full-length theatrical releases, one short film in an... -
The Philosophy of Werner Herzog by M. Blake Wilson
SciFier: €123.75Legendary director, actor, author, and provocateur Werner Herzog has incalculably influenced contemporary cinema for decades. Until now there has been no sustained effort to gather and present a... -
Phenomenology of Film by Shawn Loht
SciFier: €110.66Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience uses the philosophy of Martin Heidegger as a framework for addressing key issues in the philosophy of film. This study grapples... -
Concept TV: An Aesthetics of Television Series Luca Bandirali 9781498597562
SciFier: €98.76What is a television series? A widespread answer takes it to be a totality of episodes and seasons. Luca Bandirali and Enrico Terrone argue against this characterization. In Concept TV: An Aesthetics... -
V.F. Perkins on Movies: Collected Shorter Film Criticism Douglas Pye 9780814346433
RRP: €41.59SciFier: €27.68Victor Perkins (1936-2016) was a foundational figure for the study of film both as a writer and as an educationalist and teacher who played a key role in establishing film within British higher... -
Vertigo Katalin Makkai 9780415494472
SciFier: €44.82Released in 1958, Vertigo is widely regarded as Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece and one of the greatest films of all time. This is the first book devoted to exploring the philosophical aspects of... -
V.F. Perkins on Movies: Collected Shorter Film Criticism Douglas Pye 9780814346426
RRP: €101.15SciFier: €85.07Victor Perkins (1936-2016) was a foundational figure for the study of film both as a writer and as an educationalist and teacher who played a key role in establishing film within British higher... -
Terrence Malick by Lloyd Michaels
RRP: €20.22SciFier: €17.59For a director who has made a limited number of feature films over four-plus decades, Terrence Malick sustains an extraordinary reputation as one of America's most original and independent directors... -
Found Footage Horror Films: A Cognitive Approach Peter Turner (Oxford Brookes University, UK) 9780367661847
SciFier: €48.94This book adopts a cognitive theoretical framework in order to address the mental processes that are elicited and triggered by found footage horror films. Through analysis of key films, the book... -
Mulholland Drive Zina Giannopoulou 9780415824668
RRP: €48.78SciFier: €44.82Beloved by film and art aficionados and fans of neo-noir cinema, Mulholland Drive is one of the most important and enigmatic films of recent years. It occupies a central and controversial position in... -
A Film-Philosophy of Ecology and Enlightenment Rupert Read 9780367664916
SciFier: €52.04Inspired by the philosophy of Wittgenstein and his idea that the purpose of real philosophical thinking is not to discover something new, but to show in a strikingly different light what is already... -
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Christopher Grau (Clemson University, USA) 9780415774666
SciFier: €45.85Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is one of the most widely discussed and thought-provoking films of recent years.This is the first book to explore and address the philosophical aspects of... -
![Auschwitz and After: Race, Culture, and "the Jewish Question" in France Lawrence D. Kritzman 9780415904414](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-ngzg0zcz0u/images/stencil/444x444/products/337110/338201/9780415904414__24663.1690534473.jpg?c=1 "Auschwitz and After: Race, Culture, and "the Jewish Question" in France Lawrence D. Kritzman 9780415904414")
Auschwitz and After: Race, Culture, and "the Jewish Question" in France Lawrence D. Kritzman 9780415904414
SciFier: €46.68Beginning with Marcel Ophus's documentary The Sorrow andthe Pity (1970) there has been an attempt to question the idea of a totally unified, courageous and resistant wartime France. Even more... -
Film as Philosophy by R. Read
SciFier: €73.77A 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,... -
Ethics and Social Criticism in the Hollywood Films of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder by Nora Henry
SciFier: €93.40This study of Erich von Stroheim, Ernst Lubitsch, and Billy Wilder focuses on what the common ethical themes in their Hollywood films unveil about the cultural and intellectual heritage of these... -
Archival Anxiety in Documentary and Mockumentary Horror Kristopher Woofter 9781839995880
SciFier: €94.64This study concerns a Gothic realism in the dark, sensorial epistemologies emerging from intersections of documentary and horror cinema. From the ineffable subjects of horror documentaries and... -
Blade Runner Amy Coplan (California State University - Fullerton, USA) 9780415485852
SciFier: €44.82Ridley Scott's Blade Runner is widely regarded as a "masterpiece of modern cinema" and is regularly ranked as one of the great films of all time. Set in a dystopian future where the line between... -
The Horse Who Drank the Sky by Murray Pomerance
SciFier: €42.26What is most important about cinema is that we are alive with it. For all its dramatic, literary, political, sociological, and philosophical weight, film is ultimately an art that provokes, touches,... -
Talk to Her A. W. Eaton 9780415773676
SciFier: €35.53Pedro Almodovar is one of the most renowned film directors of recent years. Talk to Her is one of the most discussed and controversial of all his films. Dealing principally with the issue of rape, it... -
The Cinematic Sublime by Nathan Carroll
RRP: €104.66SciFier: €103.88This interdisciplinary volume is dedicated to exploring the idea of the cinematic sublime by bringing together the disciplines of film studies and aesthetics to examine cinema and cinematic... -
The Thin Red Line David Davies 9780415773652
SciFier: €35.53The Thin Red Line is the third feature-length film from acclaimed director Terrence Malick, set during the struggle between American and Japanese forces for Guadalcanal in the South Pacific during... -
Robert Pippin and Film by Dr Dominic Lash (University of Bristol, UK)
SciFier: €38.07Robert Pippin (1948- ) is a major figure in contemporary philosophy, having published influential work on thinkers including Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche. He is also an original thinker about - and... -
Memento Andrew Kania (Trinity University, USA) 9780415774741
SciFier: €33.47Within a short space of time, the film Memento has already been hailed as a modern classic. Memorably narrated in reverse, from the perspective of Leonard Shelby, the film's central character, it... -
Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema Daniel Yacavone 9780231157681
SciFier: €113.06Film Worlds unpacks the significance of the "worlds" that narrative films create, offering an innovative perspective on cinema as art. Drawing on aesthetics and the philosophy of art in both the... -
Film Worlds: A Philosophical Aesthetics of Cinema Daniel Yacavone 9780231157698
RRP: €33.32SciFier: €29.67Film Worlds unpacks the significance of the "worlds" that narrative films create, offering an innovative perspective on cinema as art. Drawing on aesthetics and the philosophy of art in both the... -
Dark Thoughts by Steven Jay Schneider
SciFier: €98.76Is horror a fundamentally nihilistic genre? Why are those of us who enjoy horror films so attracted to watching things on screen that in real life we would almost certainly find repellent? Do monster... -
Film, Art, and the Third Culture: A Naturalized Aesthetics of Film Murray Smith 9780198822752
SciFier: €39.08In the mid-1950s C.P. Snow began his campaign against the 'two cultures' - the debilitating divide, as he saw it, between traditional 'literary intellectual' culture, and the culture of the sciences,... -
Film, Art, and the Third Culture: A Naturalized Aesthetics of Film Murray Smith (University of Kent) 9780198790648
SciFier: €84.11In the mid-1950s C.P. Snow began his campaign against the 'two cultures' - the debilitating divide, as he saw it, between traditional 'literary intellectual' culture, and the culture of the sciences,...