Engaging the moving image / Noël Carroll.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carroll, Noël, 1947-

Series:

Yale series in the philosophy and theory of art.

Yale series in the philosophy and theory of art

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Philosophy.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (449 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Noël Carroll, a brilliant and provocative philosopher of film, has gathered in this book eighteen of his most recent essays on cinema and television-what Carroll calls "moving images." The essays discuss topics in philosophy, film theory, and film criticism. Drawing on concepts from cognitive psychology and analytic philosophy, Carroll examines a wide range of fascinating topics. These include film attention, the emotional address of the moving image, film and racism, the nature and epistemology of documentary film, the moral status of television, the concept of film style, the foundations of film evaluation, the film theory of Siegfried Kracauer, the ideology of the professional western, and films by Sergei Eisenstein and Yvonne Rainer. Carroll also assesses the state of contemporary film theory and speculates on its prospects. The book continues many of the themes of Carroll's earlier work Theorizing the Moving Image and develops them in new directions. A general introduction by George Wilson situates Carroll's essays in relation to his view of moving-image studies.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

Chapter 1. Forget the Medium!

Chapter 2. Film, Attention, and Communication: A Naturalistic Account

Chapter 3. Film, Emotion, and Genre

Chapter 4. Ethnicity, Race, and Monstrosity: The Rhetorics of Horror and Humor

Chapter 5. Is the Medium a (Moral) Message?

Chapter 6. Film Form: An Argument for a Functional Theory of Style in the Individual Film

Chapter 7. Introducing Film Evaluation

Chapter 8. Nonfiction Film and Postmodernist Skepticism

Chapter 9. Fiction, Nonfiction, and the Film of Presumptive Assertion: Conceptual Analyses

Chapter 10. Photographic Traces and Documentary Films: Comments for Gregory Currie

Chapter 12. The Essence of Cinema?

Chapter 13. TV and Film: A Philosophical Perspective

Chapter 14. Kracauer's Theory of Film

Chapter 15. Cinematic Nation Building: Eisenstein's The Old and the New

Chapter 16. The Professional Western: South of the Border

Chapter 17. Moving and Moving: From Minimalism to Lives of Performers

Chapter 18. Prospects for Film Theory: A Personal Assessment

Credits

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786611731274

9781281731272

1281731277

9780300133073

0300133073

OCLC:

923587102