Philosophical aspect of culturological study of cinema

Abstract

This article focuses on the issue of developing a separate trend in cinema studies — the philosophy of cinema. The experience of the auteur cinema, related to direct visualization of the philosophical underones in films, and its relation to such philosophical movements as the philosophy of life, existentialism, postmodernism, etc, creates a neccessity to develop such a trend. The article underlines some specific problems of cinema that require philosophical research. This is, first, the problem of the cinematic experience that the authors put under scrutiny discussing the collective monograph “Cinematic experience. History — theory — practice”, produced by the philosophers from St. Petersburg. Secondly, it is the specifics of time in cinema, for the discussion of which the authors address the concepts of A. Bergson, M. Heidegger and G. Deleuze. Thirdly, the article raises the question of corporeality, this topical philosophical problem today — here it is discussed in relation to cinema. The intrusion of technology into the communication of cinema with the mass audience noticeably destroys the existing connection between the rational and the sensual, the spiritual and the corporeal principles in thinking and in the perception of art.