The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures
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 inter
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e Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures
Noël Carroll Laura T. Di Summa • Shawn Loht Editors
The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures
Editors Noël Carroll The Graduate Center City University of New York New York, NY, USA
Laura T. Di Summa William Paterson University Wayne, NJ, USA
Shawn Loht Baton Rouge Community College Baton Rouge, LA, USA
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Foreword
There really is no disentangling philosophy and film. Film is part of philosophy; philosophy is part of film. Most major philosophical issues are expressed in film in one way or another because film, properly conceived, is a way of thinking about the world. It’s about the relationship between our perception of the world and the world itself. It’s riddled with fundamental issues of epistemology, philosophy of language, philosophy of perception, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, and on, and on. Let me give an example, which I use in my recent book The Ashtray: one of my favorite John Ford movies, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962). Looked at from one perspective, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is an extended essay on reference, meaning and the coherence versus the correspondence theories of truth. Following Horace Greeley’s injunction to “Go West, young man,” Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) takes his law school diploma and hangs out his shingle in Shinbone, a lawless frontier town in a life-or-death st
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