Philosophy and film analysis

Abstract

The relationship between cinema and philosophy is increasingly present in reflections by contemporary philosophers. Many of them have written books that merge philosophical thought and film analysis. In general lines, this kind of discourse allowed them to set aside the concept of image presupposed both in philosophy and in cinema. We here examine Gilles Deleuze’s and Jacques Racière’s theories and analysis of Hitchcock’s Vertigo in order to understand the relationship between philosophy and film practice analysis both thinkers established. The final goal is to discuss the connections between image and narrative which can be unraveled from this junction and which are part of philosophical and cinematographic tradition. At the same time, we undertake an analysis considering text and cinematographic language through image, thus subverting the traditional approach of cinematographic image.