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1	The Matrix and Philosophy: Welcome to the Desert of the Real more books like this by William Irwin (Editor) add to wishlist The cultural phenomenon known as the Matrix receives a philosophical examination, from the editor of THE SIMPSONS AND PHILOSOPHY and SEINFELD AND PHILOSOPHY. Here images and language from the Keanu Reeves sci-fi flick are used to redress more complicated philosophical precepts, with topics covering the nature of reality, pop culture, and religion. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.49! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Film Theory: An Anthology more books like this by Professor Robert Stam (Editor), Professor Toby Miller (Editor) add to wishlist This book is a lively and provoking introduction to film theory. It is suitable for students from any discipline but is particularly aimed at students studying film and literature as it examines issues common to both subjects such as realism, illusionism, narration, point of view, style, semiotics, psychoanalysis and multiculturalism. It also ... see all copies from $27.50! new only from $35.23! \| SVS
3	Philosophy Through Film more books like this by Mary Litch, M Litch Mary add to wishlist Philosophy Through Film offers a stimulating new way to explore the basic questions of philosophy. Each chapter uses a popular film to examine one such topic - from free will and skepticism to personal identity and artificial intelligence - in a approachable yet philosophically rigorous manner. A wide range of films are discussed including more ... see all copies from $19.80! new only from $35.01! \| SVS
4	Engaging the Moving Image more books like this by Noel Carroll, George Wilson (Introduction by) add to wishlist Noel Carroll, film philosopher, has gathered in this book 18 of his most recent essays on cinema and television - what Carroll calls "moving images". The essays discuss topics in philosophy, film theory, and film criticism. Drawing on concepts from cognitive psychology and analytic philosophy, Carroll examines a wide range of topics. These include ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.86! \| first editions
5	Cutting Rhythms: Shaping the Film Edit more books like this by Karen Pearlman add to wishlist There are many books on the technical aspects of film and video editing: e.g., how to use software packages like Final Cut Pro and Avid. Much rarer are books on how an editor thinks and makes decisions. Faced with hundreds of hours of raw footage, a film editor must craft the pieces into a coherent whole. Rhythm is a fundamental tool of the film ... see all copies from $30.25! new only from $30.25! \| SVS
6	Philosophers Explore the Matrix more books like this by Christopher Grau (Editor) add to wishlist The Matrix trilogy is unique among recent popular films in that it is constructed around important philosophical questions--classic questions which have fascinated philosophers and other thinkers for thousands of years. Editor Christopher Grau here presents a collection of new, intriguing essays about some of the powerful and ancient questions ... see all copies from $16.38! new only from $27.83! \| first editions
7	Concepts in Film Theory more books like this by James Dudley Andrew, Dudley Andrew add to wishlist This book is designed for anyone with a serious interest in the art of film. It is both a history of film theory and an introduction to the work of the most important and influential writers on the subject - Munsterberg, Arnheim, Eisenstein, Balazs, Kracauer, Bazin, Mitry, and Metz. Andrew sets out these major theorists one against the other ... see all copies from $3.84! new only from $3.93! \| first editions \| SVS
8	Movies and the Meaning of Life: Philosophers Take on Hollywood more books like this by Kimberly A Blessing, Paul J Tudico add to wishlist A compelling collection of essays explores philosophical issues through the lens of popular Hollywood films, finding interesting topics in Fight Club, Being John Malkovich, American Beauty, and many other movies. Original. see all copies from $4.71! new only from $10.75! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film, Enlarged Edition more books like this by Stanley Cavell add to wishlist A philosophical study of popular movies uses the viewer as a point of reference. see all copies from $16.95! new only from $21.62! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Endless Night: Cinema & Psychoanalysis, Parallel Histories more books like this by Janet Bergstrom (Editor) add to wishlist The "endless night" that film theory and psychoanalysis share is the darkness they face in their quest for the logics of intelligibility. This text argues that film theory must be written with a strong sense of historical consciousness, curiosity and archaeological craft. The volume brings together film theorists and practicing psychoanalyists to ... see all copies from $2.82! new only from $5.15! \| SVS
11 view cover	Theory of film practice more books like this by Noel Burch add to wishlist see all copies from $14.85!
12 view cover	Born in Flames: Termite Dreams, Dialectical Fairy Tales, and Pop Apocalypses more books like this by Howard Hampton add to wishlist Twenty years as an outsider scouring the underbelly of American culture has made Howard Hampton a uniquely hardnosed guide to the heart of pop darkness. Bridging the fatalistic, intensely charged space between Apocalypse Now Redux and Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit," his writing breaks down barriers of ignorance and arrogance that have ... see all copies from $2.82! new only from $11.95! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Looks and Frictions: Essays in Cultural Studies and Film Theory more books like this by Paul Willemen add to wishlist Willemen's writing has contributed significantly to the development of film theory and cultural studies over the past 20 years. This is a collection of his classic but provocative essays, covering a wide range of issues, from pornography and melodrama to Third Cinema and questions of national identity - from the films of Amos Gitai and Nagashi ... see all copies from $12.65! first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Defining cinema more books like this by Peter Lehman (Editor) add to wishlist This text focuses on the theoretical foundations of film studies as a discipline. It combines reprints of essays by major film theorists with contemporary analyses of their work. They offer accounts of what cinema is, how people watch and respond to films, and what constitutes good film-making. see all copies from $9.95! new only from $23.59! \| first editions
15 view cover	Explorations in Film Theory: Selected Essays from Cine-Tracts more books like this by Ron Burnett (Editor) add to wishlist A selection of articles from Cine-Tracts, it represents ideas and theories in the areas of film and communications studies, feminist studies, and film history. It covers topics such as: Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Dziga-Vertov, pornography, and educational television. see all copies from $3.64! new only from $19.29! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Film, Art, and Filmart: An Introduction to Aesthetics Through Film more books like this by Michael D Dahnke add to wishlist 22.95 see all copies from $3.00! new only from $3.00! \| SVS
17 view cover	The Material Ghost: Films and Their Medium more books like this by Gilberto Perez add to wishlist Part of a series of film essays covering major works by great directors, this volume looks at the works of F. W. Murnau, Jean Renoir, Jean-Luc Godard, and Sergei Eisenstein. Though written by a university professor, the text is crisp and accessible rather than scholarly. see all copies from $5.01! new only from $17.89! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan more books like this by Professor Todd McGowan add to wishlist Examines the gaze in Lacanian film theory see all copies from $21.39! new only from $24.95! \| SVS
19	Filming and Judgment: Between Heidegger and Adorno more books like this by Wilhelm S Wurzer add to wishlist see all copies from $8.68! new only from $14.71! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Empty Moments - PB more books like this by Leo Charney, Leo Charney add to wishlist In "Empty Moments," Leo Charney describes the defining quality of modernity as "drift"--the experience of being unable to locate a stable sense of the present. Through an exploration of artistic, philosophical, and scientific interrogations of the experience of time, Charney presents cinema as the emblem of modern culture's preoccupation with the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	The Cinema Effect more books like this by Mr. Sean Cubitt add to wishlist It has been said that all cinema is a special effect. In this highly original examination of time in film Sean Cubitt tries to get at the root of the uncanny effect produced by images and sounds that don't quite align with reality. What is it that cinema does? Cubitt proposes a history of images in motion from a digital perspective, for a digital ... see all copies from $18.95! new only from $18.95! \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Reading Cavell's the World Viewed: A Philosophical Perspective on Film more books like this by William Rothman, Marian Keane add to wishlist In their study of one of Stanley Cavell's greatest yet most neglected books, William Rothman and Marian Keane address this eminent philosopher's many readers, from a variety of disciplines, who have neither understood why he has given film so much attention, nor grasped the place of "The World Viewed" within the totality of his writings about film ... see all copies from $4.72! new only from $6.98! \| SVS
23 view cover	The Evolution of Film: Rethinking Film Studies more books like this by Dr. Janet Harbord add to wishlist How is film changing? What does it do, and what do we do with it? This book examines the reasons why we should be studying film in the twenty-first century, connecting debates from philosophy, anthropology and new media with historical concerns of film studies. When the common frameworks for studying film - the nation, identity, representation, ... see all copies from $15.99! new only from $18.33! \| SVS
24 view cover	The Brain is the Screen: Deleuze and the Philosophy of Cinema more books like this by Gregory Flaxman (Editor) add to wishlist In the nearly twenty years since their publication, Gilles Deleuze's books about cinema have proven as daunting as they are enticing -- a new aesthetics of film, one equally at home with Henri Bergson and Wim Wenders, Friedrich Nietzsche and Orson Welles, that also takes its place in the philosopher's immense and difficult oeuvre. With this ... see all copies from $14.16! new only from $16.95! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Doing Philosophy at the Movies more books like this by Richard A Gilmore add to wishlist "Doing Philosophy at the Movies finds the roots of profound philosophical ideas in the relatively ordinary context of popular, mostly Hollywood, movies. Richard A. Gilmore suggests that narratives of popular films like Hitchcock's "Vertigo, John Ford's "The Searchers, Woody Allen's "Crimes and Misdemeanors, the Coen Brothers' "Fargo, and Danny ... see all copies from $6.95! new only from $20.95! \| SVS

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