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Gilbert Cohen-Seat was born on 26 July 1907 in Setif, Algeria. He was a producer and production manager, known for Classe enfantine (1945), School for Love (1955) and Lady Chatterley's Lover (1955). He died on 12 June 1980 in Paris, France.
- Producer, Production Manager, Director
- July 26, 1907
- Gilbert Cohen-Seat
- June 12, 1980
- What Is Philosophy of Film?
- An Overview of Theories
- References and Further Reading
Many studies of film do not necessarily claim a specific philosophical heritage, but can be considered as philosophical inasmuch as their approaches are methodologically sophisticated and transgress empiricism. Though it is very difficult to establish positive standards for what is ‘’philosophical’’ and what is not, it can be concurred that an appr...
a. Henri Bergson
In the early 1900’s, Henri Bergson (1859-1941) developed the concepts of “movement-image” and “time-image” (in Matière et memoire), both of which anticipated the development of film theory.Bergson declares the image to be superior to the concept because the image is able to evoke thought content in a more fluent and less abstract fashion. In lectures held at the College de France between 1902-03, Bergson briefly refers to the possibility of “comparing the mechanism of conceptual thought with...
b. Hugo Münsterberg
The German-American philosopher and psychologist Hugo Münsterberg (1863-1916) wrote the first book on the philosophy of film entitled Photoplay: A Psychological Study (1916, German: Das Lichtspiel: eine psychologische Studie, 1916). Active during the silent film era, Münsterberg attempted to establish cinema as an art form that is different from theater or photography. Coming to America at the age of thirty-four, Münsterberg had clearly been under Neo-Kantian influence in Germany. Photoplayis...
Agel, Henri. Esthétique du cinéma.Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1957.Aitken, Ian. European Film Theory and Cinema: A Critical Introduction. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.Allen, Richard and Murray Smith. Film Theory and Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.Andrew, Dudley J. Major Film Theories: An Introduction. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1976.Jul 1, 2012 · The work of Gilbert Cohen-Séat (1907–1980) and Étienne Souriau (1892–1979) was central to the post-war film era and the initial drive towards a more structured approach to film. Cohen-Séat coined the term ‘filmologie’ for the impartial and scientifically objective study of the filmic, the cinematic, and their links to the social sphere.
- Sarah Cooper
- 2012
Gilbert Cohen-Séat, is described as a positive science with its own strategy of systematizing the study of film as object and institution with its own series of emerging methods.
first advanced by sociologist Gilbert Cohen-Séat—which allowed for greater specialization and more careful attention to be paid to the problems inherent in film research.
Filmology, a term introduced by Gilbert Cohen-Séat, is described as a positive science with its own strategy of systematizing the study of film as object and institution with its own series of emerging methods.
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