| Description |
xi, 474 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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unmediated n rdamedia |
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volume nc rdacarrier |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 458-465) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : film theory and philosophy / Richard Allen and Murray Smith -- The film theory that never was : a nervous manifesto / Gregory Currie -- On pictures and photographs : objections answered / Kendall L. Walton -- Looking at motion pictures / Richard Allen -- Sound, epistemology, film / Edward Branigan -- Cinematic authorship / Paisley Livingston -- Film authorship and collaboration / Berys Gaut -- Fiction, non-fiction, and the film of presumptive assertion : a conceptual analysis / Noël Carroll -- What is non-fiction cinema? / Trevor Ponech -- On film narrative and narrative meaning / George Wilson -- The ideological impediment : epistemology, feminism, and film theory / Jennifer Hammett -- Ideology and film culture / Héctor Rodriguez -- Aesthetics and politics in contemporary black film theory / Tommy L. Lott -- Music in the movies : a philosophical enquiry / Peter Kivy -- Personal agency theories of expressiveness and the movies / Flo Leibowitz -- Aristotelians on Speed : paradoxes of genre in the context of cinema / Deborah Knight -- Notes on spectator emotion and ideological film criticism / Carl Plantinga -- Comedy and classicism / Dirk Eitzen -- Imaging from the inside / Murray Smith -- Seeing theory : on perception and emotional response in current film theory / Malcolm Turvey. |
| Summary |
This volume is comprised of new essays on a wide range of topics by both film scholars and philosophers who share the commitment to conceptual investigation, logic consistency, and clarity of argument and characterizes analytic philosophy. |
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy.
(OCoLC)fst01027348
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| Added Author |
Allen, Richard, 1959-
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Smith, Murray, 1962-
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| ISBN |
0198159218 (hb ; alk. paper) |
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9780198159216 (hb ; alk. paper) |
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0198159889 (pbk.) |
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9780198159889 (pbk.) |
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0198158218 (h/b) |
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