Cinema, Philosophy and Education: experiences of learning, history and art in films by F. Truffaut, V. de Sica and G. Tornatore

Abstract

In this work we interpret three classical films from Italy and France, in which we focus on infancy and its ways of thought and learning: Les Quatre Cents Coups(Truffaut), Ladri di biciclette(De Sica), and Cinema Paradiso(Tornatore). Giorgio Agamben holds that nowadays, infancy does not have access to experiences. Issues such as experiences of learning, of history and of art arise from narrations in which infancy generates experience with history, learning and art. In this case, we address this issue from the link between cinema and philosophy.From the analysis of these three films, we conclude another agambenian premise: theassertionofexperiencein all three films we confirm another premise proposed by the autor, namely that politics constitute life, and that all experience (of learning, of history, of art) becomes so in an aesthetic occurrence through which the person who thinks and lives the experience, does it in a device of life and power with which he construes and takes part in history.