Filmosophy

Filmosophy is a provocative new manifesto for a radically philosophical way of understanding cinema. The book coalesces twentieth-century ideas of film as thought (from Hugo Mnsterberg to Gilles Deleuze) into a practical theory of `film-thinking', arguing that film style conveys poetic ideas through a constant dramatic `intent' about the characters, spaces and events of film. With discussions of contemporary filmmakers such as B‚la Tarr, Michael Haneke and the Dardenne brothers, this timely intervention into the study of film and philosophy will stir argument and discussion among both filmgoers and filmmakers alike.