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Film as Ethical Philosophy and the Question of Philosophical Arguments in Film: A Reading of The Tree of Life
Film and Philosophy 18:164-183 (2014)
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Responds to the seminal claim of Bruce Russell that films cannot present philosophical arguments. Provides a reading of The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011) in order to illustrate how this film presents an environmental ethics argument. Some reference to the environmental philosophy of Holmes Rolston III as well as Martin Heidegger.Author's Profile
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Phenomenological Preconditions of the Concept of Film-as-Philosophy.Shawn Loht - 2015 - Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology 2 (2):171-185.
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