NEW PROJECT OF PHILOSOPHICAL RESEARCH OF CINEMA. Review of the collective monograph “cinematic experience: history, theory, practice” (St. Petersburg, 2020)
The article presents a detailed review of the collective monograph “Cinematic Experience: History, Theory, Practice” prepared by the Petersburg philosophers. Each of the authors highlights and analyzes a separate aspect of the functioning and impact of cinema. Moreover, they show realisation of an innovative project of philosophical research of cinema, which itself is systematic and therefore scientifically promising. The study focuses on the cinematic experience. The term “cinematic experience” appears to be not only as a particular problem, but as a philosophical concept that allows you to combine various issues of studying cinema into a system. The point of the philosophical study of cinematic experience lies in the desire to reach that scientific level where the ultimate generalization of the idea of cinema as a cultural phenomenon is possible. Highly appreciating the prepared work, the author draws attention to the turn in understanding the functioning of cinema towards philosophy. Until now the study of the experience of cinema from a philosophical perspective has hardly been undertaken. At the turn of the 19-20th centuries, the study of cinema managed to differentiate (as evidenced by such areas as the sociology of cinema, semiotics of cinema, psychology of cinema, receptive aesthetics of cinema, etc.). There is a need for a comprehensive, or, more precisely, an integrative approach in/to the cinema studies. The philosophy of cinema is designed to solve this problem. A research project prepared by the Petersburg philosophers shows that research in this area has begun and is yielding promising results.