volume 64 number 1 (winter 2006)

special issue
thinking through cinema: film as philosophy

Murray Smith and Thomas E. Wartenberg, Guest Editors

Introduction
murray smith and thomas e. wartenberg
1

I. The Very Idea of Film as Philosophy

Theses on Cinema as Philosophy
paisley livingston
11

Beyond Mere Illustration: How Films Can Be Philosophy
thomas e. wartenberg
19

Film Art, Argument, and Ambiguity
murray smith
33

II. Popular American Film: Entertainment and Enlightenment

Hitchcock and Cavell
richard allen
43

The Paradox of the Unknown Lover: A Reading of Letter from an
Unknown Woman
lester h. hunt
55

Spike Lee and the Sympathetic Racist
dan flory
67

Transparency and Twist in Narrative Fiction Film
george wilson
81

The Impersonation of Personality: Film as Philosophy in Mission: Impossible
stephen mulhall
97

On Being Philosophical and Being John Malkovich
daniel shaw
111

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and the Morality of Memory
christopher grau
119

III. Continental Philosophy, Continental Film

Sartre, the Philosophy of Nothingness, and the Modern Melodrama
andrás bálint kovács
135

Cineman and Subjectivity in Krzysztof Kieslowski
paul c. santilli
147

Is Sex Comedy or Tragedy? Directing Desire and Female Auteurship in the
Cinema of Catherine Breillat
katherine ince
157

IV. Film as "Theory": The Avant-Garde

Apperception on Display: Structural Films and Philosophy
jinhee choi
165

Philosophizing Through the Moving Image: The Case of Serene Velocity
noël carroll
173

The Substance of Cinema
trevor ponech
187

The World Rewound: Peter Forgács's Wittgenstein Tractatus
whitney davis
199