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PublisherBloomsbury Academic & Professional

ISBN-100826485235

ISBN-139780826485236

eBay Product ID (ePID)63646419

Product Key Features

Number of Pages160 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameAesthetics and Film

SubjectFilm / General, Aesthetics, Film / History & Criticism

Publication Year2008

TypeTextbook

AuthorKatherine Thomson-Jones

Subject AreaPhilosophy, Performing Arts

SeriesBloomsbury Aesthetics Ser.

FormatUk-Trade Paper

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Item Height0.3 in

Item Weight6.9 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2008-010482

Dewey Edition22

Reviews'Clear and engaging, compact and balanced, this book provides an up-to-date introduction to some of the central issues in the philosophy of film. I can thoroughly recommend it.' Berys Gaut, Reader in Philosophy, University of St Andrews, UK, 'A clear and comprehensive introduction to the philosophy of film. This book will be a great resource for students as well as philosophers interested in learning about recent developments in the philosophy of film.' Thomas Wartenberg, Professor of Philosophy, Mount Holyoke College, USA

Dewey Decimal791.4301

Table Of ContentPreface 1. Film as Art 2. Realism 3. Authorship 4. The Language of Film 5. Narration in the Fiction Film6. The Thinking Viewer 7. The Feeling ViewerNotes Bibliography Index

SynopsisAesthetics and Film is a philosophical study of the historically dominant form of moving image media. >, 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. 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., 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., 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. >

LC Classification NumberPN1995.T465 2008