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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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.