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According to Stanley Cavell, film was a place where 1930s and 1940s America did its thinking, a tradition that was taken up and enriched throughout world cinema. Can film indeed think? That is, can film do the work of philosophy? Thinking Film: Philosophy at the Movies argues that it can. Featuring pieces never before translated into English and an array of thinkers from across the analytic and continental traditions, this volume features work...

Hailed as one of America's original art forms, film has the distinctive character of crossing both high and low art. But film has done more than this. According to American philosopher Stanley Cavell, film was also a place where America in the 30s and 40s did its thinking, a tradition that was taken up and enriched throughout world cinema. Can film indeed think? That is, can film do the work of philosophy? Following Cavell's lead to think a...