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Philosophers have written a great deal about a wide range of art forms including painting, music, drama,

and even photography. But what about film? Is there anything distinctive about film which

makes it philosophically interesting.

Greg Curry of York University thinks there is.

Greg Curry, welcome to Philosophy Bites.

Hello. The topic we're going to focus on is the philosophy of film.

Now we're talking about feature films movies.

Obviously, Plato didn't write about the feature film.

It's a relatively new discipline, the philosophy of film. It's a relatively new discipline the philosophy of film. What are the

interesting questions that philosophers ask about film? Philosophy of film is of course a recent subject just as film is a recent medium the

youngest artistic medium that has been highly successful and perhaps the most

successful medium that there has ever been.

There are a number of problems that I think of interest to philosophers about film and some of

them are to do with the way in which film relates to perception

and this comes up in relation to photography as well but film gives it an extra

emphasis because of the way in which film occupies time as well as space

and provides movement rather than merely static images and you can put the central problem in the

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