User:Thomas Wartenberg

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Thomas E. Wartenberg is professor of philosophy at Mount Holyoke College where he also teaches in the Film Studies Program. He is the author of Unlikely Couples: Movie Romance as Social Criticism (Westview) and The Forms of Power: From Domination to Transformation (Temple). He has recently edited three books: The Nature of Art (Wadsworth, 2nd edition), The Philosophy of Film: Introductory Text and Readings (Blackwell with Angela Curran), and Thinking Through Cinema: Film as Philosophy (Blackwell with Murray Smith). He has made a video (with Kelly Albrecht) entitled Teaching Children Philosophy and has a website devoted to teaching philosophy through children’s literature: www.mtholyoke.edu/go/kidsphil. His book entitled Thinking On Screen: Film as Philosophy which is to appear from Routledge in the winter of 2007 examines how films are able to do philosophy. His recent publications include “Film as Argument” in the journal Film Studies and “Beyond Mere Illustration” in Thinking Through Cinema: Film as Philosophy (2006). He is currently finishing Existentialism: A Beginner’s Guide for Oneworld Publications. This book is to appear in late summer of 2008. He is currently on the Board of Trustees of the American Society for Aesthetics and will be the local arrangements Chair for the 2008 meetings to be held in Northampton, MA. He is the film editor for Philosophy Now, for which he writes a bi-monthly film column.