"A philosophy may then emerge from this play of light and shadow." - Jean Epstein (Intelligence of a Machine, 1946). 

"A philosophy may then emerge from this play of light and shadow." - Jean Epstein (Intelligence of a Machine, 1946). 

Filmphilosophies.com is the home website of the Film Philosophy Scholarly Interest Group of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Here you will find support for the growing field of scholarly work on philosophy, film, and moving image media. See the About / Contact page for further information.

Announcements

Here, you will find news of calls-for-papers, events, and publications related to the field, as well notices related to the Scholarly Interest Group. Please sign up for notifications!

Resources

On this page, you will find journals, presses, websites, and more that are open to the interests and questions of film and philosophy.

Bibliographies

Here, you will a series of bibliographies of books and articles related to different aspects of the field. These are not meant to be exhaustive, but rather to serve as an entry point to the field, laying out important works on a variety of topics.