With the rise of review sites and social media, films today, as
soon as they are shown, immediately become the topic of debates on
their merits not only as entertainment, but also as serious forms
of artistic expression. Philosopher Robert B. Pippin, however,
wants us to consider a more radical proposition: film as thought,
as a reflective form. Pippin explores this idea through a series of
perceptive analyses of cinematic masterpieces, revealing how films
can illuminate, in a concrete manner, core features and problems of
shared human life. Filmed Thought examines questions of morality in
Almod var's Talk to Her, goodness and naivete in Hitchcock's Shadow
of a Doubt, love and fantasy in Sirk's All that Heaven Allows,
politics and society in Polanski's Chinatown and Malick's The Thin
Red Line, and self-understanding and understanding others in
Nicholas Ray's In a Lonely Place and in the Dardennes' oeuvre. In
each reading, Pippin pays close attention to what makes these films
exceptional as technical works of art (paying special attention to
the role of cinematic irony) and as intellectual and philosophical
achievements. Throughout, he shows how films offer a view of basic
problems of human agency from the inside and allow viewers to think
with and through them. Captivating and insightful, Filmed Thought
shows us what it means to take cinema seriously not just as art,
but as thought, and how this medium provides a singular form of
reflection on what it is to be human.
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