Douglas Sirk: Filmmaker and Philosopher

Robert B. Pippin is the Evelyn Stefansson Nef Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Philosophy at the University of Chicago. He is the author of many books, including Filmed Through Thought: Cinema as Reflective Form (2019), Hegel’s Realm of Shadows: Logic as Metaphysics in The Science of Logic(2018), The Philosophical Hitchcock (2017) and Fatalism in American Noir: Some Cinematic Philosophy (2012)