European cinema and continental philosophy
film as thought experiment

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Bibliographic Details
Authors and Corporations: Elsaesser, Thomas (Author)
published: New York, London, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney Bloomsbury Academic [2019]
©2019
Part of: Thinking cinema ; volume 8
Media Type: Book, E-Book

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Table of Contents

New readings comparing acclaimed directors with pressing political/ethical issues debated in contempory continental philosophy. Interrogates key ontologies of film theory - the cinema screen as either window or mirror. This book compares European cinema, the legacy of the French Revolution and the values of the Enlightenment. The book focuses on the extent to which contemporary cinema contributes to political/philosophical thinking about the future of Europe's core Enlightenment values - liberty, fraternity, equality

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