Carroll / Choi Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures

An Anthology
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-5201-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 432 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies

Designed for classroom use, this authoritative anthology presentskey selections from the best contemporary work in philosophy offilm.
* The featured essays have been specially chosen for theirclarity, philosophical depth, and consonance with the current movetowards cognitive film theory
* Eight sections with introductions cover topics such as thenature of film, film as art, documentary cinema, narration andemotion in film, film criticism, and film's relation to knowledgeand morality
* Issues addressed include the objectivity of documentary films,fear of movie monsters, and moral questions surrounding the viewingof pornography
* Replete with examples and discussion of moving picturesthroughout

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carroll, Noël

Choi, Jinhee

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments.
General IntroductionPart I: Film as Art.
Introduction.
1 Roger Scruton.
Photography and Representation.
2 Dominic McIver Lopes.
The Aesthetics of Photographic Transparency.
3 Terrence Rafferty.
Everybody Gets a Cut: DVDs Give Viewers Dozens of Choices -- andThat's the Problem.
Part II: What Is Film?.
Introduction.
4 Stanley Cavell.
From The World Viewed.
5 Susanne K. Langer.
A Note on the Film.
6 F. E. Sparshott.
Vision and Dream in the Cinema.
7 Gregory Currie.
The Long Goodbye: The ImaginaryLanguage of Film.
8 Arthur C. Danto.
Moving Pictures.
9 Noël Carroll.
Defining the Moving ImagePart III: Documentary.
Introduction.
10 Gregory Currie.
Visible Traces: Documentary and the Contents of Photographs.
11 Noël Carroll.
Fiction, Non-Fiction, and the Film of Presumptive Assertion: AConceptual Analysis.
Part IV: Film Narrative/Narration.
Introduction.
12 George Wilson.
Le Grand Imagier Steps Out: The Primitive Basis of FilmNarration.
13 Gregory Currie.
Unreliability Refigured: Narrative in Literature and Film.
Part V: Film and Emotion.
Introduction.
14 Noël Carroll.
Film, Emotion, and Genre.
15 Kendall Walton.
Fearing Fictions.
16 Alex Neill.
Empathy and (Film) Fiction.
17 Berys Gaut.
Identification and Emotion in Narrative Film.
18 Deborah Knight.
In Fictional Shoes: Mental Simulation and Fiction.
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Part VI: Topics in Film Criticism.
Introduction.
19 George M. Wilson.
Morals for Method.
20 Paisley Livingston.
Cinematic Authorship.
21 Jinhee Choi.
National Cinema, the Very Idea.
Part VII: Film and Ethics.
Introduction.
22 Joseph H. Kupfer.
Film Criticism and Virtue Theory.
23 Mary Devereaux.
Beauty and Evil: The Case of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumphof the Will.
24 Melinda Vadas.
A First Look at the Pornography: Civil Rights Ordinance: CouldPornography Be the Subordination of Women?.
Part VIII: Film and Knowledge.
Introduction.
25 Bruce Russell.
The Philosophical Limits of Film.
26 Karen Hanson.
Minerva in the Movies: Relations Between Philosophy andFilm.
27 Lester H. Hunt.
Motion Pictures as a Philosophical Resource.
Select Bibliography by Jinhee Choi.
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Noël Carroll is the Mellon Professor of the Humanitiesat Temple University and the author of Beyond Aesthetics(2001), A Philosophy of Mass Art (1999), and Interpretingthe Moving Image (1998).
Jinhee Choi is Assistant Professor of Film Studies atCarleton University. Her work has appeared in the Journal ofAesthetics and Art Criticism and The British Journal ofAesthetics.