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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. General IntroductionPart I: Film as Art. Introduction. 1 Roger Scruton. Photography and Representation. 2 Dominic McIver Lopes. The Aesthetics of Photographic Transparency. 3 Terrence Rafferty. Everybody Gets a Cut: DVDs Give Viewers Dozens of Choices -- and That's the Problem. Part II: What Is Film?. Introduction. 4 Stanley Cavell. From The World Viewed. 5 Susanne K. Langer. A Note on the Film. 6 F. E. Sparshott. Vision and Dream in the Cinema. 7 Gregory Currie. The Long Goodbye: The ImaginaryLanguage of Film. 8 Arthur C. Danto. Moving Pictures. 9 Noel Carroll. Defining the Moving ImagePart III: Documentary. Introduction. 10 Gregory Currie. Visible Traces: Documentary and the Contents of Photographs. 11 Noel Carroll. Fiction! Non-Fiction! and the Film of Presumptive Assertion: A Conceptual Analysis. Part IV: Film Narrative/Narration. Introduction. 12 George Wilson. Le Grand Imagier Steps Out: The Primitive Basis of Film Narration. 13 Gregory Currie. Unreliability Refigured: Narrative in Literature and Film. Part V: Film and Emotion. Introduction. 14 Noel Carroll. Film! Emotion! and Genre. 15 Kendall Walton. Fearing Fictions. 16 Alex Neill. Empathy and (Film) Fiction. 17 Berys Gaut. Identification and Emotion in Narrative Film. 18 Deborah Knight. In Fictional Shoes: Mental Simulation and Fiction. . Part VI: Topics in Film Criticism. Introduction. 19 George M. Wilson. Morals for Method. 20 Paisley Livingston. Cinematic Authorship. 21 Jinhee Choi. National Cinema! the Very Idea. Part VII: Film and Ethics. Introduction. 22 Joseph H. Kupfer. Film Criticism and Virtue Theory. 23 Mary Devereaux. Beauty and Evil: The Case of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will. 24 Melinda Vadas. A First Look at the Pornography: Civil Rights Ordinance: Could Pornography Be the Subordination of Women?. Part VIII: Film and Knowledge. Introduction. 25 Bruce Russell. The Philosophical Limits of Film. 26 Karen Hanson. Minerva in the Movies: Relations Between Philosophy and Film. 27 Lester H. Hunt. Motion Pictures as a Philosophical Resource. Select Bibliography by Jinhee Choi. Index ...
