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Film Worlds unpacks the significance of the worlds that narrative films create, offering an innovative perspective on cinema as art. Drawing on aesthetics and the philosophy of art in both the continental and analytic traditions, as well as classical and contemporary film theory, it weaves together multiple strands of thought and analysis to provide new understandings of filmic representation, fictionality, expression, self-reflexivity, style, and the full range of cinemas affective and symbolic dimensions.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Films and Worlds1. Worlds Within Worlds: Fictions, Narrative, and Aesthetic Enclosure
Part II. Worlds of Symbols2. The Framework of Worlds: Symbolization, Meaning, and Art
3. Filmmaking as Symbolic Transformation
4. Ways of Cinematic World-Making
5. Representation, Exemplification, and Reflexivity: An Alternative Approach to the Symbolic Dimension of Cinematic Art
Part III. Worlds of Feeling6. Forms of Feeling: Mapping Affect and Emotions in Films
7. Cineaesthetic World-Feeling and Immersion
Part IV. Worlds of Truth8. Toward an Existential Hermeneutics of Film Worlds
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Daniel Yacavone is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Edinburgh, where he has been acting director of Film Studies within the School of Literatures, Languages, and Cultures and has held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship.
Summary
Crafting a philosophy of cinematic art from the keenest insights of the continental and analytic traditions.
