Carroll Minerva's Night Out

Philosophy, Pop Culture, and Moving Pictures
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-32298-7
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 368 Seiten, E-Book

Minerva's Night Out presents series of essays bynoted philosopher and motion picture and media theorist NoëlCarroll that explore issues at the intersection of philosophy,motion pictures, and popular culture.
* Presents a wide-ranging series of essays that reflect onphilosophical issues relating to modern film and popularculture
* Authored by one of the best known philosophers dealing withfilm and popular culture
* Written in an accessible manner to appeal to students andscholars
* Coverage ranges from the philosophy of Halloween toVertigo and the pathologies of romantic love

Autoren/Hrsg.

Carroll, Noël

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Philosophy and the Popular Arts 1
Section I The Philosophy of Mass Art 7
1 The Ontology of Mass Art 9
2 Modernity and the Plasticity of Perception 29
3 The Ties that Bind: Characters, the Emotions, and PopularFictions 40
4 Character, Social Information, and the Challenge of Psychology64
Section II The Philosophy of Motion Pictures 83
5 Movies, the Moral Emotions, and Sympathy 85
6 The Problem with Movie Stars 106
7 Cinematic Narrative 122
8 Cinematic Narration 133
9 Psychoanalysis and the Horror Film 145
Section III Philosophy and Popular Film 159
10 Philosophical Insight, Emotion, and Popular Fiction: The Caseof Sunset Boulevard 161
11 Vertigo and the Pathologies of Romantic Love 183
12 What Mr Creosote Knows about Laughter 194
13 Memento and the Phenomenology of Comprehending Motion PictureNarration 203
Section IV Philosophy and Popular TV 221
14 Tales of Dread in The Twilight Zone: A Contribution toNarratology 223
15 Sympathy for Soprano 234
16 Consuming Passion: Sex and the City 247
Section V Philosophy on Broadway 267
17 Art and Friendship 269
18 Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman, or The Justificationof Literature 276
Section VI Philosophy across Popular Culture 289
19 The Fear of Fear Itself: The Philosophy of Halloween 291
20 The Grotesque Today: Preliminary Notes toward a Taxonomy302
21 Andy Kaufman and the Philosophy of Interpretation 324
Index 348

Über Autor(innen)

Noël Carroll is a Distinguished Professor ofPhilosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. A former journalist,screenwriter, and President of the American Society for Aesthetics,Carroll is the author of 16 books, including Art in ThreeDimensions (2010), On Criticism (2009), ThePhilosophy of Motion Pictures (Blackwell, 2008), BeyondAesthetics (2001), A Philosophy of Mass Art (1999), andInterpreting the Moving Image (1998).