Encyclopedia of THE ROUTLEDGE COMPANION TO PHILOSOPHY AND FILM
Paisley Livingston And Carl Plantinga
The recent surge of interest in film in academia has seen the emergence of film studies as a legitimate academic discipline, and a concomitant rise in film scholarship and courses in film offered at colleges and universities. Yet film has also become a medium of interest in other disciplines, especially in philosophy, which is currently witnessing a “boom” in the general area of philosophy and film.