In the mid-1950s CP 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 …

Works of fiction are works of the imagination and for the imagination. Gregory Currie
energetically defends the familiar idea that fictions are guides to the imagination, a view …

The first edition of Stephen Mulhall's acclaimed On Film was a study of the four Alien films,
and made the highly original and controversial argument that films themselves can …

Thinking on Screen: Film as Philosophy is an accessible and thought-provoking
examination of the way films raise and explore complex philosophical ideas. Written in a …

Few living philosophers have been featured in films: Jean Luc Godard's Vivre sa Vie (1962)
has Brice Parrain talk to Anna Karina in a caf é, and in La Chinoise (1968) Francis Jeanson …

Now emulated in several competing publications, but still unsurpassed in clarity and insight,
Philosophy Goes to the Movies: An Introduction to Philosophy, Third Edition builds on the …

The increasingly popular idea that cinematic fictions can'do'philosophy raises some difficult
questions. Who is actually doing the philosophizing? Is it the philosophical commentator …

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 …

The recent surge of interest in film in academia has seen the emergence of film studies as a
legitimate academic discipline, and a concomitant rise in film scholarship and courses in film …

The central debates about art and knowledge concern art's potential as a source of
knowledge. Do we learn things from art? If so, what kinds of things do we learn and how …