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The Philosophy of Motion Pictures

ISBN: 978-1-405-12024-1

December 2007

Wiley-Blackwell

256 pages

Description

Philosophy of Motion Pictures is a first-of-its-kind, bottom-up introduction to this bourgeoning field of study. Topics include film as art, medium specificity, defining motion pictures, representation, editing, narrative, emotion and evaluation.

  • Clearly written and supported with a wealth of examples
  • Explores characterizations of key elements of motion pictures –the shot, the sequence, the erotetic narrative, and its modes of affective address
About the Author
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), and is editor (with Jinhee Choi) of Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures: An Anthology (Blackwell, 2005).
Features

  • First-of-its-kind book

  • Clearly written and supported with a wealth of examples
  • Topics include film as art, medium specificity, defining motion pictures, the nature of representation, editing, narrative, emotion and evaluation
  • Explores characterizations of key elements of motion pictures –the shot, the sequence, the erotetic narrative, and its modes of affective address