Aesthetics and film / Katherine Thomson-Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomson-Jones, Katherine, author.

Series:

Continuum aesthetics.

Continuum aesthetics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures--Aesthetics.

Motion pictures.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (159 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Continuum, 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Aesthetics and Film is a philosophical study of the art of film. Its motivation is the recent surge of interest among analytic philosophers in the philosophical implications of central issues in film theory and the application of general issues in aesthetics to the specific case of film. Of particular interest are questions concerning the distinctive representational capacities of film art, particularly in relation to realism and narration, the influence of the literary paradigm in understanding film authorship and interpretation, and our imaginative and affective engagement with film. For all of these questions, Katherine Thomson-Jones critically compares the most compelling answers, driving home key points with a wide range of film examples including Wiene's The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Eisenstein's October, Hitchcock's Rear Window, Kubrick's The Shining and Sluizer's The Vanishing. Students and scholars of aesthetics and cinema will find this an illuminating, accessible and highly enjoyable investigation into the nature and power of a technologically evolving art form

Contents:

Preface

1. Film as Art

2. Realism

3. Authorship

4. The Language of Film

5. Narration in the Fiction Film

6. The Thinking Viewer

7. The Feeling Viewer

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-142) and index.

ISBN:

9786612875724

9781441128300

1441128301

9781472545336

1472545338

9781282875722

1282875728

9781441171535

1441171533

OCLC:

676697244