Cinema and philosophy [LLETM302]

Learning outcomes

• Develop an informed and critical view of philosophical theories of the cinematic image • Acquire analytical skills mobilising philosophical conceptuality while respecting the singularity of cinematographic works • To understand the formal, narrative and plastic specificities of cinema in its epistemic dimension (specificity of filmic knowledge of the world).

Content

The "Cinema and Philosophy" course will provide an original reflection on cinema, nourished by philosophical conceptuality, especially (but not exclusively) from the 20th century. At the same time, it will focus on specific filmic analysis, so as not to be locked into abstraction. The course will consist of two parts - two movements, back and forth. In the first part, the course will propose a study of certain great philosophies of the cinema (Benjamin, Deleuze, Rancière) whose conceptuality will be put to the test of the films that inspire these theories - we will thus go from philosophy to cinema. In a second phase, we will study certain cinematographic works, mainly from the Hollywood classicism, to describe the specific reflexivity of the moving image. The film thus becomes an actor of philosophical reflection. This time, therefore, we will go from cinema to philosophy.