© Columbia University Press
Filmosophy
Paper, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-1-904764-84-7
$24.00
September, 2006
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-1-904764-85-4
Wallflower Press
$80.00
"[An] elegant, deftly argued book... Essential." — CHOICE
"About every fifteen years, it seems, contemporary film theory takes what is commonly called a 'turn.' The Psychoanalytic Turn of the Sixties and Seventies was followed by the Historiographic Turn that took us through much of the Eighties and Nineties. But now we are fully into a Philosophic Turn. Deleuze kicked off the trend in France in 1983 with his cinema books, followed by various certified philosophers exploring their passions for cinema - Bernard Stiegler, Slavoj Zizek, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, and Jacques Rancire, among others. The U.S. already had Stanley Cavell working in this area. Now, with books such as Daniel Frampton's boldly argued Filmosophy appearing, hard-line cinephilia and hardline philosophy have merged'" — Adrian Martin, Cineaste
"An often very engaging, always passionate attempt to get to grips with film problems that aren't going to go away." — Tony McKibbin, Senses of Cinema
"An extremely daring book. Filmosophy does not present a philosophy of film, nor does it explore how film contributes material for philosophical interpretation. Rather, in a lucid and clear style, Daniel Frampton argues that film is philosophy; it is itself, aesthetical and philosophical expression - a medium for thinking-with or an accompaniment to thought. In conceptualising film as an 'organic intelligence', Frampton draws from the lessons of both Gilles Deleuze and Stanley Cavell to propose one of the most original film philosophies of the last thirty years." — D. N. Rodowick, , Harvard University
"Filmosophy is a provocative and significant intervention in the contemporary dialogue about the cinema as manifest philosophy, expressed in both thought and action. Frampton's expansive rhetoric is refreshing, his film references eclectic and his prose a pleasure to read." — Prof. Vivian Sobchack, , University of California, Los Angeles