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Informationen zum Autor Noël Carroll is the Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Temple University and the author of Beyond Aesthetics (2001), A Philosophy of Mass Art (1999), and Interpreting the Moving Image (1998). Jinhee Choi is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and The British Journal of Aesthetics. Klappentext This authoritative anthology presents key selections from the best contemporary work in philosophy of film and motion pictures. Designed for classroom use, the essays that comprise this volume have been specially chosen for their clarity, precision, philosophical depth, and consonance with current cognitive science and psychology. The volume's eight sections, each introduced by the editors, cover topics such as Film as art The nature of film Documentary cinema Narration and emotion in film Film criticism Film's relation to knowledge and morality Whether addressing assumptions about the objectivity of documentary film, fear of movie monsters, or moral questions surrounding the viewing of pornography, this text is replete with examples and discussion of moving pictures throughout. Zusammenfassung Designed for classroom use! this authoritative anthology presents key selections from the best contemporary work in philosophy of film. . Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments viii General Introduction 1 Part I Film as Art 5 Introduction 7 1 Photography and Representation 19 roger scruton 2 The Aesthetics of Photographic Transparency 35 dominic mciver lopes 3 Everybody Gets a Cut: DVDs Give Viewers Dozens of Choices - and that's the Problem 44 terrence rafferty Part II What Is Film? 49 Introduction 51 4 The World Viewed 67 stanley cavell 5 A Note on the Film 79 susanne k. langer 6 Vision and Dream in the Cinema 82 f. e. sparshott 7 The Long Goodbye: The Imaginary Language of Film 91 gregory currie 8 Moving Pictures 100 arthur c. danto 9 Defining the Moving Image 113 noËl carroll Part III Documentary 135 Introduction 137 10 Visible Traces: Documentary and the Contents of Photographs 141 gregory currie 11 Fiction, Non-Fiction, and the Film of Presumptive Assertion: A Conceptual Analysis 154 noËl carroll Part IV Film Narrative/Narration 173 Introduction 175 12 Le Grand Imagier Steps Out: The Primitive Basis of Film Narration 185 george m. wilson 13 Unreliability Refigured: Narrative in Literature and Film 200 gregory currie Part V Film and Emotion 211 Introduction 213 14 Film, Emotion, and Genre 217 noËl carroll 15 Fearing Fictions 234 kendall walton 16 Empathy and (Film) Fiction 247 alex neill 17 Identification and Emotion in Narrative Film 260 berys gaut 18 In Fictional Shoes: Mental Simulation and Fiction 271 deborah knight Part VI Topics in Film Criticism 281 Introduction 283 19 Morals for Method 287 george m. wilson 20 Cinematic Authorship 299 paisley livingston 21 National Cinema, the Very Idea 310 jinhee choi Part VII Film and Ethics 321 Introduction 323 22 Film Criticism and Virtue Theory 335 joseph h. kupfer 23 Beauty and Evil: The Case of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will 347 mary devereaux 24 A First Look at the Pornography/Civil Rights Ordinance: Could Pornography Be the Subordination of Wome...
