Cinema as a Philosophical Subject

Abstract

The relationship between philosophy and cinema may be examined from three angles: the philosophical output of cinema, in that cinema is a field capable of producing ideas and concepts and having a significant aesthetic impact on contemporary culture; examining the aesthetics of cinema itself, its tools and techniques; viewing cinema as a tool for philosophy or as a philosophical experience. This paper thus discusses the books and publications in the field of philosophy that are devoted to cinema and the philosophers most concerned with the question of the cinematic image. It also focuses on the intellectual and critical moments that inaugurated the relationship between philosophy and cinema, especially in the works of authors such as Henri Bergson and Maurice Merleau-Ponty.