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From Plato’s Cave to the Multiplex

Contemporary Philosophy and Film

Edited By: Stephen Rainey, Barbara Gabriella Renzi

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This rich collection of articles explores the productive interaction between philosophy and film. The pieces offer philosophical analyses of specific films and the cinematic medium, revealing surprising connections and provoking philosophical reflection.

This is a rich and varied collection of articles that both offer philosophical analyses of film and reflect on philosophical questions through film. The pieces…

This is a rich and varied collection of articles that both offer philosophical analyses of film and reflect on philosophical questions through film. The pieces range widely, from discussions of specific films and the work of particular directors, to reflections on cinematic techniques and on the medium of cinema in general. Here, cinema enters into a genuinely productive interaction with philosophy. We see how philosophical perspectives and methods are able to inform the critical analysis of film, how films can concretely explore and make use of philosophical perspectives, and how film can challenge and provoke philosophical reflection. Some of the articles address familiar themes in the developing philosophy and film literature in fresh ways, while others make surprising and revealing new connections between philosophical perspectives and cinema. Either way, the results are always interesting and illuminating, and demonstrate once again how fruitful the bringing together of philosophy and film can be.

Barbara Gabriella Renzi is completing her PhD on Scientific Methodology and Evolutionary Biology at the Queen’s University of Belfast. She studied Philosophy of Science and specialised in Bioethics at ‘La Sapienza’ in Rome. She published “Natural Selection, Exaptation and the Evolution of Science” in Philosophical Writings and “A false Beginning: a Search for a universal Language. And a different Proposal” in Beginnings: Critical Perspectives, edited by Angela Brüning. She taught courses on Philosophy and Film at Queen’s University Belfast and her poems appear in Italian anthologies.
Stephen Rainey obtained a first class degree and MA with distinction in philosophy from Queen’s University Belfast, where he remains to this day, writing his PhD thesis on a contemporary view of rationality by Kantian means.

Barbara Gabriella and Stephen have co-edited a collection of philosophical papers entitled Noesis for the Cambridge Scholars Press