FILMOSOPHY

Filmosophy is a provocative new manifesto for a radically philosophical way of understanding cinema. The book coalesces twentieth-ce ntury ideas of film as thought (from Hugo Münsterberg to Gilles Deleuze) into a practical theory of film-thinking, arguing that fi lm style conveys poetic ideas through a constant dramatic intent about the characters, spaces and events of film. With discussions of contemporary filmmakers such as Béla Tarr, Michael Haneke and the Dardenne brothers, this timely intervention into the study of film and phil...[Read more]