Nathan T. Andersen

This was an invited talk for a special Film and Philosophy focused meeting of the Society for the Philosophical Study of Contemporary Visual Arts. The talk focused on some of the challenges of teaching film and philosophy in a period when students "consume" media and watch films primarily online, such that the traditional experience of being together with an audience in a darkened theater when the projector starts is no longer typical. Students who come into such courses often have little experience with philosophy and little experience with film studies or formal film analysis, so the question of how far one can go with the content of the course was also discussed.