Description: Examines how philosophical concepts like free will, personal identity, and goodness are given an artistic life in films and television programs.
Brief description: Matthew Cipa is Lecturer at the Queensland University of Technology, Australia and affiliate academic in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, Australia.
Review Quotes:
"This book is an excellent introduction to metaphysical concepts in and of film, and both the clarity with which they are expressed and the deftness with which they are applied make it a very rewarding read. Cipa stretches our understanding and renews our appetite for thinking about cinema and television." - Daniel Varndell, University of Winchester
"Many colleges and graduate programs have courses in film theory, but this book is a rarity these days in that its themes are ideas so universal, and so deep, that it has a fair chance of finding an audience among nonspecialists. All it really requires of the reader is a love of film and television." - William Rothman, University of Miami