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Philosophers have written a great deal about a wide range of art forms, including painting, music, drama, and even photography.
But what about film?
Is there anything distinctive about film which makes it philosophically interesting?
Greg Currie of York University thinks there is.
Greg Currie, welcome to philosophy Bites.
Hello.
The topic we're going to focus on is the philosophy of film.
Now we're talking about feature films.
Movies.
Obviously Plato didn't write about the feature film.
It's a relatively new discipline, the philosophy of film.
What are the interesting questions that philosophers ask about film?
Philosophy of film is, of course, a recent subject, just as film is a recent medium, the youngest artistic medium that has been highly successful and perhaps the most successful medium that there has ever been.
There are a number of problems that I think of interest to philosophers about film, and some of them are to do with the way in which film relates to perception.
And this comes up in relation to photography as well.
But film gives it an extra emphasis because of the way in which film occupies time as well as space and provides movement rather than merely static images.