Richard Allen / Murray Smith (eds.)

Film Theory and Philosophy

Herausgeber: Allen, Richard; Smith, Murray

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The diversity of the questions addressed here (aesthetics and politics in black film theory, film music, authorship, genre, comedy, epistemology, feminism, and film theory)is matched by the range of positions argued for and demonstrates a vital plurality of perspectives rather than a single line of thought.

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This volume of new essays energizes a growing movement in film theory which questions and seeks to overturn many of the assumptions that have governed film theory for the last twenty years. The book brings together film scholars and philosophers in a united commitment to the standards of argumentation that characterize analytic philosophy rather than a single doctrinal approach. The essays address such topics as authorship, emotion, ideology, representation, and expression in film.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 486
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 159mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9780198159216
• ISBN-10: 0198159218
• Artikelnr.: 22449098

Autorenporträt

Richard Allen is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University Murray Smith is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury

Inhaltsangabe

* INTRODUCTION
* Film Theory and Philosophy
* PART 1 What is Cinematic Representation
* 1: Gregory Currie: The Film Theory that Never Was: A Nervous
Manifesto
* 2: Kendall L. Walton: On Pictures and Photographs: Objections
Answered
* 3: Richard Allen: Looking at Motion Pictures
* 4: Edward Branigan: Sound, Epistemology, Film
* PART 2 Meaning, Authorship, and Intention
* 5: Paisley Livingston: Cinematic Authorship
* 6: Berys Gaut: Film Authorship and Collaboration
* 7: Noel Carroll: Fiction, Non-Fiction, and the Film of Presumptive
Assertion: A Conceptual Analysis
* 8: Trevor Ponech: What is Non-Fiction Cinema?
* 9: George Wilson: On Film Narrative and Narrative Meaning
* PART 3 Ideology and Ethics
* 10: Jennifer Hammett: The Ideological Impediment: Epistemology,
Feminism, and Film Theory
* 11: Hector Rodriguez: Ideology and Film Culture
* 12: Tommy Lott: Aesthetics and Politics in Contemporary Black Film
Theory
* PART 4 Aesthetics
* 13: Peter Kivy: Music in the Movies: A Philosophical Enquiry
* 14: Flo Leibowitz: Personal Agency Theories of Expressiveness and the
Movies
* 15: Deborah Knight: Aristotelians on Speed: Paradoxes of Genre in the
Context of Cinema
* PART 5 Emotional Response
* 16: Carl Plantinga: Notes on Spectator Emotion and Ideological Film
Criticism
* 17: Dirk Eitzen: Comedy and Criticism
* 18: Murray Smith: Imagining from the Inside: POV, Imagining Seeing,
and Empathy
* 19: Malcolm Turvey: Seeing Theory: On Perception and Emotional
Response in Current Film Theory
* Select Bibliography
* Index