Philosophical Inquiry: How can film be art?

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Simply put, we have all used our imagination and our interests and passions have all been reflected upon the big screen of the cinema. Why do we get such a lucrative sensation from films and narratives invoking adventure, loss, trials, and hard fought victories all the while remaining glued to a seat watching the images flow? It is because, as St. Augustine notes himself, this is no mere act of the senses. When we watch fictional films and receive that aw-inspring imaginative pull away from reality, it is, in a sense, creating a new reality within our own experience. I explore Gregory Currie's Anne Brontë and the Uses of Imagination to explain how fictional films create content, routed in our imagination, supplemented by our sensory experience.