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Cinema and Ontology
by Maurizio Ferraris and Enrico Terrone
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The essays presented in this volume investigate the relationship between cinema and ontology. This investigation unfolds, on the one hand, through an ontological understanding of cinema, that is, an understanding of the specificity of if its being. On the other hand, it highlights the ways in which cinema can help us to shed some light on the domain of ontology, namely, what exists. The five sections of this volume, each containing a pair of complementary essays, analyze the following topics: the place of cinema in the system of the arts, the connection between cinematic realism and philosophical realism, the transition from analog to digital cinema, the specificity of films made through cell phones, and the representation of non-human animals in films.
Table of Contents
1) Cinema and the automatic sweetheart
- The Work of art as an Automatic Sweetheart
- Automatic Sweethearts without Names: The Place of Films in the World of Art
2) Cinema and new realism
-Realism and Trasparency in Film
-What is New in Realism? Cinema, Philosophy and the Rediscovery of Reality
3) Cinema and documediality
-The Movie Theatre of Babel. Toward a New Ontology of Film
-The Digital Secret of the Moving Image
4) Cinema and the ontology of the cell phone
-Double signature. An Ontology for Mobile Movies
-Film Me, Stupid. On Eco on Mobile Phones and Stupidity
5) Cinema and animality.
-Humans, Animals, Machines. Anthropocentrism and Science Fiction Cinema
- Films for Animals and Children
About the authors:
Maurizio Ferraris is full Professor of Philosophy at the University of Turin, where he is the vice-Rector for Humanities Research and the President of the LabOnt – Laboratory for Ontology. He is Directeur de recherche at the 'Collège d’études mondiales' (Paris) and advisory member of the 'Center for Advanced Studies of South East Europe' (Rijeka) and of the 'Internationales Zentrum Für Philosophie NRW'. He wrote more than fifty books that have been translated into several languages.Enrico Terrone received his B.A. in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico of Turin, and his doctoral degree in Philosophy from the University of Turin. He taught Film History and Criticism at the University of Eastern Piedmont. He has published papers in several peer reviewed international journals, including The Monist and Estetika. He has published Filosofia delle serie tv (Philosophy of Tv Series, 2012) and Filosofia del film (Film’s Philosophy, 2014). In 2015, Enrico Terrone became a Fellow at the Käte Hamburger Center for Advanced Study in the Humanities, in Bonn.
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