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This handbook brings together essays in the philosophy of film and motion pictures from authorities across the spectrum. It boasts contributions from philosophers and film theorists alike, with many essays employing pluralist approaches to this interdisciplinary subject. Core areas treated include film ontology, film structure, psychology, authorship, narrative, and viewer emotion. Emerging areas of interest, including virtual reality, video games, and nonfictional and autobiographical film also have dedicated chapters. Other areas of focus include the film medium's intersection with contemporary social issues, film's kinship to other art forms, and the influence of historically seminal schools of thought in the philosophy of film. Of emphasis in many of the essays is the relationship and overlap of analytic and continental perspectives in this subject.
List of contents
1.Frank Boardman - Film Ontology: Extension, Criteria, and Candidates.- 2. Noël Carroll - Medium Specificity.- 3. Nick Wiltsher and Aaron Meskin- The Moving Image.- 4. Patrick Keating - The Art of Cinematography.- 5. Angela Curran - Silly Questions and Arguments for the Implicit, Cinematic Narrator.- 6. Patrick Keating - Narrative and the Moving Image.- 7. Karen Pearlman - On Rhythm in Film Editing.- 8. David Davies - Animation.- 9. Paloma Atencia-Linares - Sound in Film.- 10. Ted Nannicelli - What is a Screenplay?.- 11. Richard Eldridge - Analytic Philosophy of Film (Contrasted with Continental Film Theory).- 12. John Ó Maoilearca - When the Twain Shall Meet: On the Divide between Analytic and Continental Film Philosophy.- 13. Shawn Loht - The Phenomenological Movement in Context of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures.- 14. Espen Hammer - Ideology and Experience: The Legacy of Critical Theory.- 15. Paul Guyer - Stanley Cavell: What Becomes of People on Film?.- 16.Deborah Knight - Film Art from the Analytic Perspective.- 17. Carl Plantinga - Cognitive Theory of the Moving Image.- 18. Andrew Klevan - Aesthetic Criticism.- 19. Robert Sinnerbrink - Poststructuralism and Film.- 20. Eva M. Dadlez - Thoughtful Films, Thoughtful Fictions: The Philosophical Terrain between Illustrations and Thought Experiments.- 21. Thomas E. Wartenberg - Contemporary Philosophical Filmmaking.- 22. Robert Sinnerbrink - Filmosophy/Film as Philosophy.- 23. Douglas Lackey - The Auteur Theory in the Age of the Mini-Series.- 24. Tom Gunning - The Question of Poetic Cinema.- 25. Malcolm Turvey - Avant-garde Film as Philosophy.- 26. Vitor Moura - Show and Tell: The identification of documentary film.- 27. Laura T. Di Summa - The Autobiographical Documentary.- 28. Zoë Cunliffe - Feminist Philosophy of Film.- 29. Lewis R. Gordon- Race in Film.- 30. David A. Gerstner - How Do We Look So Far? Notes Toward a Queer-Film Philosophy.- 31. Jacob M. Held - Film, Art, and Pornography.-32. Sheryl Tuttle Ross - Propaganda and the Moving Image.- 33. Kristin Boyce - Film and Fine Art: Automatism, Automata and "The Myth of Total Cinema" in The Red Shoes and Tales of Hoffmann.- 34. John Dyck - The Sonic Art of Film and the Sonic Arts in Film.- 35. Garry L. Hagberg - Adaptation, Translation, and Philosophical Investigation in Adaptation.- 36. Jonathan Gilmore - Imagination and Film.- 37. Daniel Jerónimo Tobón- Empathy and Sympathy: Two Contemporary Models of Character Engagement.- 38. Jesse J. Prinz - Affect and Motion Pictures.- 39. Nick Pappas - Psychoanalysis and the Philosophy of Film.- 40. Ted Nannicelli - The Television Medium.- 41. Jon Robson and Aaron Meskin - Video games and Film.- 42. Gal Raz - Virtual Reality as an Emerging Art Medium and its Immersive Affordances.
About the author
Noël Carroll is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the Graduate Center of CUNY, USA.
Laura T. Di Summa-Knoop is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at William Paterson University, USA.
Shawn Loht is an Institutional Researcher at Baton Rouge Community College, USA.
Summary
This handbook brings together essays in the philosophy of film and motion pictures from authorities across the spectrum. It boasts contributions from philosophers and film theorists alike, with many essays employing pluralist approaches to this interdisciplinary subject. Core areas treated include film ontology, film structure, psychology, authorship, narrative, and viewer emotion. Emerging areas of interest, including virtual reality, video games, and nonfictional and autobiographical film also have dedicated chapters. Other areas of focus include the film medium’s intersection with contemporary social issues, film’s kinship to other art forms, and the influence of historically seminal schools of thought in the philosophy of film. Of emphasis in many of the essays is the relationship and overlap of analytic and continental perspectives in this subject.
