Download or read book Cinema, Philosophy, Bergman written by Paisley Livingston and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-07-02 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can cinema be a medium for philosophy? If so, how is the philosophizing done? Paisley Livingston explores the philosophical value of cinema. As a case-study for his intentionalist theory of authorship and interpretation he focuses on Ingmar Bergman's cinematic explorations of motivated irrationality, inauthenticity, and self-knowledge.