PHILOSOPHY OF FILM

CONTENTS

ANCIENT (CLASSICAL):
   Epicureanism
   Neoplatonism
   Pre-Socratics
   Pyrrhonian Skepticism
   Sophists
   Stoicism
      Literature & Literary Theory

MEDIEVAL (c.350-c.1400):
   Literature & Literary Theory

EARLY MODERN:
   Renaissance (c.1400-c.1600):
      Literature & Literary Theory
   17th & 18th Century (c.1600-c.1785):
      Literature & Literary Theory

19th CENTURY (c.1785-c.1890):
   Romanticisms & Neo-Romanticisms:
      German & Anglo-American Idealism
      Existentialism
         Literature & Literary Theory
   'Victorian' Positivism:
         Literature & Literary Theory

20th CENTURY:
   Analytic Philosophy:
      Logical Atomism
      Logical Positivism
      Ordinary Language
      Recent
         Aesthetics
   Anglo-American Modernisms:
      'High' Modernism
      Liberal Humanism
      Myth Criticism
      Neo-Aristotelianism
      New Criticism
   Continental Philosophy:
      Idealism:
            Literary Theory
      Marxism:
         Frankfurt School
            Literary Theory
      Phenomenology:
         Existentialism
         Hermeneutics
            Literary Theory
      Psychoanalysis:
         Literary Theory
            Object-Relations Theory
            Jungian Analytical Psychology:
               Literary Theory
      (Post-)Structuralisms:
         Deconstruction:
            Literary Theory
         Deleuzean Theory:
            Literary Theory
         Dialogism (Bakhtin Circle):
            Literary Theory
         Foucauldian Theory:
            Literary Theory
         Semiotics / Structuralism:
            Literary Theory:
               Russian Formalism
         Structuralist Marxism:
            Literary Theory
         Structuralist Psychoanalysis:
            Literary Theory
   Pragmatism:
      Literary Theory

AFRICA AND AFRICAN DIASPORA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

ASIA:
      Central Asia
      East Asia (Chinese):
         Literature & Literary Theory
      South Asia (Indian):
         Literature & Literary Theory
      South-East Asia

AUSTRALASIA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

CANADA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

CARIBBEAN:
   Literature & Literary Theory

EUROPE:
      Central Europe
      Eastern Europe:
         Russia:
            Literature & Literary Theory
      Northern Europe (Scandinavia):
         Literature & Literary Theory
      Southern Europe:
         Greece
            Literature & Literary Theory
         Italy
            Literature & Literary Theory
         Spain
            Literature & Literary Theory
      Western Europe:
         Eire
            Literature & Literary Theory
         France
            Literature & Literary Theory
         Germany
            Literature & Literary Theory
         UK:
            Scotland
            Wales
               Literature & Literary Theory

LATIN AMERICA:
   Literature & Literary Theory

MIDDLE EAST:
   Arabic/Islamic Thought:
      Literature & Literary Theory
   Israeli/Jewish Thought:
      Literature & Literary Theory

USA:
   Literature & Literary Theory
   African American:
      Literature & Literary Theory
   Native American:
      Literature & Literary Theory

ARTS:
   Architecture
   Arts (Performing)
   Arts (Visual and Plastic)
   Film
   Literature:
      Audience
      Author
      Literary Form & Genre:
         Drama
         Poetry
         Prose
      Literary Historicism
      Lit. History, Intertextuality, Canonicity
      Metaliterature
      Literary Representation (Realism)
   Music

COMMUNICATION:
   Interpretation
   Language
        Linguistic Criticism/Literary Stylistics

Reasoning: Logic, Rhetoric, Argument

GEOGRAPHY & THE ENVIRONMENT:
Ecocriticism

HUMAN BEING:
Body:

Gender (Feminist Theory)
Race (Critical Race Theory)

Sexuality (Queer Theory):

Queer Critical Theory

Mind:
Cognitive & Psychological Criticism

Self:
Writing the Self

KNOWLEDGE

METAPHILOSOPHY / METATHEORY

Ethical Criticism

RELIGION:
Religion and Literature

NATURAL SCIENCES & TECHNOLOGY:
Biology & Medical Sciences:

      Darwinist (Evolutionary) Criticism
   Chemistry
   Information Technology
   Mathematics
   Physics

SOCIAL FORMATION:

   Culture
   Economics
   History
   Law

Politics
Society

GENERAL

ASSOCIATIONS
CAREERS
CONFERENCES
JOURNALS
PHOTOS
PRIMARY SOURCES
SECONDARY SOURCES
TEACHING AND LEARNING
WWW GATEWAYS

ALTERNATIVE STANDPOINTS

Feminist Theory:
Aesthetics/ Critical Theory

Post-colonial Theory:
Aesthetics / Critical Theory

PHILOSOPHY OF FILM

I use the term Philosophy of Film to refer to the use of logical and scientific methods to explain the nature of film, it constituent elements, its effect, etc.

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Anthologies:
- Choi, Jinhee, and Noel Caroll, eds. Philosophy of Film and Moving Pictures. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005.
- Read, Rupert, and Jerry Goodenough, eds. Film as Philosophy: Essays on Cinema after Wittgenstein and Cavell. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
- Smith, Murray, and Thomas E. Wartenberg, eds. Thinking Through Cinema: Film As Philosophy. Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64.1 (2006).
Selected Individual Works:
- Frampton, Daniel. Filmosophy. London: Wallflower, 2006.
- McGinn, Colin. The Power of Movies: How Screen and Mind Interact.

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SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

Anthologies:
Selected Individual Works:

On-Line:

Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Arts

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