Film and cinema, both as a field of study and as locus of cultural practice, and their wider frame of reference in communication and aesthetics and entertainment, have all been enriched by an understanding of philosophy. When, for instance, we ask about realism and what representation and illusion are, about connections between intention and consciousness or between art and ethics, or consider what forms of meaning and being are implicit in structure or semiotics or narrative, we are asking what are essentially philosophical questions about art in general and about film and cinema (or equally story or sculpture or painting)in particular.
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