Philosophy of Motion Pictures and Film as Philosophy

The aim of this paper is to put forth the some of the main arguments about the philosophy of cinema and to show the possibility of “philosophy of cinema”. While doing this, at first we have tried to convey the emergence of “philosophy of cinema” and its relationship with “film theory”. Thereafter we have tried to investigate that what kind of “narrative” the film has in the aspect of Symmetry and Asymmetry Theses. In the second part of the paper, we have tried to define cinema over the physical elements of which it is consist of and set forth its historical development, briefly. Consequently, using G. Deleuze’s definition of cinema as base, we have tried to support the idea of that cinema is a new way of thinking. In addition we have tried to discuss whether cinema is a language or not and its quality, shortly