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Filmed Thought Robert B Pippin

Filmed Thought By Robert B Pippin

Filmed Thought by Robert B Pippin


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Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form by Robert B Pippin

With the rise of review sites and social media, films today, as soon as they are shown, immediately become the topic of debates on their merits not only as entertainment, but also as serious forms of artistic expression. Philosopher Robert B. Pippin, however, wants us to consider a more radical proposition: film as thought, as a reflective form. Pippin explores this idea through a series of perceptive analyses of cinematic masterpieces, revealing how films can illuminate, in a concrete manner, core features and problems of shared human life. Filmed Thought examines questions of morality in Almod var's Talk to Her, goodness and naivete in Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt, love and fantasy in Sirk's All that Heaven Allows, politics and society in Polanski's Chinatown and Malick's The Thin Red Line, and self-understanding and understanding others in Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place and in the Dardennes' oeuvre. In each reading, Pippin pays close attention to what makes these films exceptional as technical works of art (paying special attention to the role of cinematic irony) and as intellectual and philosophical achievements. Throughout, he shows how films offer a view of basic problems of human agency from the inside and allow viewers to think with and through them. Captivating and insightful, Filmed Thought shows us what it means to take cinema seriously not just as art, but as thought, and how this medium provides a singular form of reflection on what it is to be human.

About Robert B Pippin

Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the University of Chicago. His most recent books include The Philosophical Hitchcock: "Vertigo" and the Anxieties of Unknowingness and Hegel's Realm of Shadows: Logic as Metaphysics in "The Science of Logic," both published by the University of Chicago Press.

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CIN022667200XG
9780226672007
022667200X
Filmed Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form by Robert B Pippin
Used - Good
Paperback
The University of Chicago Press
2019-12-16
312
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