Film-Philosophy (Feb 2024)

Response to Critical Views of Phenomenology of Film

  • Shawn Loht

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3366/film.2024.0258
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 28, no. 1
pp. 113 – 130

Abstract

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This article responds to critical views of John Rhym, Martin Rossouw, Ludo de Roo, and Annie Sandrussi on my 2017 book Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience. The article also takes up positive footholds from the analyses of Chiara Quaranta and Jason Wirth. The main topics addressed include Martin Heidegger’s ontic-ontological distinction; the notion of film-as-philosophy; being-in-the-world read as being-in-the-film-world; and questions surrounding the facticity and identity of the film viewer.

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