Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy

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A deflationary, anti-theoretical film-philosophy through the cinema of Abbas Kiarostami Mathew Abbott presents a powerful new film-philosophy through the cinema of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami. Mathew Abbott argues that Kiarostami’s films carry out cinematic thinking: they do not just illustrate pre-existing philosophical ideas, but do real philosophical work. Crossing the divide between analytic and continental philosophy, he draws on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, John McDowell, Alice Crary, Noël Carroll, Giorgio Agamben, and Martin Heidegger, bringing out the thinking at work in Kiarostami’s most recent films: Taste of Cherry, The Wind Will Carry Us, ABC Africa, Ten, Five, Shirin, Certified Copy and Like Someone in Love. Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy Copyright Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Abbas Kiarostami and Film-Philosophy 1 The Wind Will Carry Us: Cinematic Scepticism 2 ABC Africa: Apparition and Appearance 3 Ten: Everything there is to Know 4 Five: Artifice and the Ordinary 5 Shirin: Absorption and Spectatorship 6 Certified Copy: The Comedy of Remarriage in an Age of Digital Reproducibility 7 Like Someone in Love: The Suspension of Belief Bibliography Index