New Philosophies of Film

A valuable book for advanced students and scholars in film studies/film theory, and for philosophers concerned with the art of film. * Choice (of the first edition) * A body of philosophical work has begun to accumulate around the provocation of cinema. Sinnerbrink enters the fray as a critical narrator of the history of this burgeoning philosophical enterprise as well as a participant in it and [...] makes an important contribution on both accounts. * Notre Dame Philosophical Review (of the first edition) * Sinnerbrink's book will add a dose of welcome scepticism to anyone embarking on the consideration of some recent developments in anglophone film studies [...] Sinnerbrink injects life into his consideration of the cognitivists by means of adroit illustration from examples of his own choosing which display a cinephile's reservoir of resources - not always something that can be said of commentators content to use the same filmic examples as do their sources. This aspect is one of the many pleasures of Sinnerbrink's addition to the growing body of work in this field. * Radical Philosophy (of the first edition) * This book is not merely a second edition of Sinnerbrink's groundbreaking study. It is a fresh upgrade of his argument on philosophical insight emerging through an engagement with cinematic aesthetics, describing with dazzling intensity how films embody debates on cinematic ethics and ontology. A must-read for all cinephiles beyond academia. * Tarja Laine, Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands *