Entertaining Unhappiness
This essay sets out reflections on happiness that, it is argued, can be drawn from the 2013 film Blue Jasmine. In doing so, it seeks to demonstrate a certain epistemic potential of sound film; specifically, in the present case, a philosophical and psychological potential. It is argued that this kind of potential resides in a filmmaker’s ability to realistically represent aspects of the world that can otherwise rarely, if ever, be experienced so reflectively.
To appear in Craig Fox and Britt Harrison, eds, Philosophy of Film Without Theory (Palgrave Macmillan, exp. 2022)
[On communication]
[Please feel free to request a draft copy.]
Under review for publication
by an academic journal
[On examples]
[To view the abstract, please download the file below.]
Under review for publication
by an academic journal
[On paradoxes]
[To view the abstract, please download the file below.]
Under review for publication
by an academic journal
[On the nature of intuition]
[To view the abstract, please download the file below.]
Under review for publication
by an academic journal
[On skill and intuition]
[To view the abstract, please download the file below.]
Under review for publication
by an academic journal