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1 online resource (xxv, 288 pages) |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
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' .. we have selected the best essays from our "Lisbon Conference on Philosophy and Film: Thinking Reality and Time through Film (2014)." -- p. ix. |
Contents |
Table of Contents; Introduction; Part 1 -- Mental Approaches; Chapter I; Chapter II; Chapter III; Chapter IV; Chapter V; Chapter VI; Chapter VII; Part 2 -- Ontological Realism and Accessing Truth through Film; Chapter VIII; Chapter IX; Chapter X; Chapter XI; Chapter XII; Chapter XIII; Chapter XIV; Part 3 -- Unmasking Violence; Chapter XV; Chapter XVI; Chapter XVII; Chapter XVIII; Chapter XIX; Contributors |
Summary |
Over the last few decades, film has increasingly become an issue of philosophical reflection from an ontological and epistemological perspective, and the claim "doing philosophy through film" has raised extensive discussion about its meaning. The mechanical reproduction of reality is one of the most prominent philosophical questions raised by the emergence of film at the end of the nineteenth century, inquiring into the ontological nature of both reality and film. Yet the nature of this audio-photographic and moving reproduction of reality constitutes an ontological puzzle, which has widely be. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Motion pictures -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy. |
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Added Author |
Reeh, Christine, editor.
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Martins, José Manuel, editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Thinking reality and time through film. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017 1443844187 (OCoLC)966553226 |
ISBN |
9781443879583 (electronic book) |
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1443879584 (electronic book) |
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1443844187 |
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9781443844185 |
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