Filmosophy A manifesto for a radically new way of understanding cinema

"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 Munsterberg 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 Bela Tarr 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.

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'You hold in your hands an extremely daring book. Filmosophy
does not present a philosophy of film, nor does it explore how film
contributes material for philosophical interpretation. Rather, in a
lucid and clear style, Daniel Frampton argues that film is philosophy;
it is itself, aesthetically, philosophical expression - a medium for
thinking - and an accompaniment to thought. In conceptualising
film as an "organic intelligence", Frampton draws from the lessons of
both Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell to propose one of the most
original film philosophies of the last thirty years.'
D. N. RODOWICK, HARVARD UNIVERSITY