Philosophy of film and motion pictures an anthology

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    Carroll, Nöel

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    Choi, Jinhee

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    This authoritative anthology presents key selections from the best contemporary work in philosophy of film and motion pictures. Designed for classroom use, the essays that comprise this volume have been specially chosen for their clarity, precision, philosophical depth, and consonance with current cognitive science and psychology. Whether addressing assumptions about the objectivity of documentary film, fear of movie monsters, or moral questions surrounding the viewing of pornography, this text is replete with examples and discussion of moving pictures throughout.

    Contents:
    • Photography and representation / Roger Scruton
    • The aesthetics of photographic transparency / Dominic McIver Lopes
    • Everybody gets a cut / Terrence Rafferty
    • From the world viewed / Stanley Cavell
    • A note on the film / Susanne K. Langer
    • Vision and dream in the cinema / F.E. Sparshott
    • The long goodbye / Gregory Currie
    • Moving pictures / Arthur C. Danto
    • Defining the moving image / Noël Carroll
    • Visible traces / Gregory Currie
    • Fiction, non-fiction, and the film of presumptive assumption / Noël Carroll
    • Le grand imagier steps out / George M. Wilson
    • Unreliability refigured / Gregory Currie
    • Film, emotion, and genre / Noël Carroll
    • Fearing fictions / Kendall Walton
    • Empathy and (film) fiction / Alex Neill
    • Identification and emotion in narrative film / Berys Gaut
    • In fictional shoes / Deborah Knight
    • Morals for method / George M. Wilson
    • Cinematic authorship / Paisley Livingston
    • National cinema / Jinhee Choi
    • Film criticism and virtue theory / Joseph H. Kupfer
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    Original Publisher: Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., c2006
    Language(s): English

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Carroll, Nöel

Choi, Jinhee

Abstract

This authoritative anthology presents key selections from the best contemporary work in philosophy of film and motion pictures. Designed for classroom use, the essays that comprise this volume have been specially chosen for their clarity, precision, philosophical depth, and consonance with current cognitive science and psychology. Whether addressing assumptions about the objectivity of documentary film, fear of movie monsters, or moral questions surrounding the viewing of pornography, this text is replete with examples and discussion of moving pictures throughout.

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Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., c2006

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9781405120272

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