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The Philosophy of Motion Pictures

By: Noel Carroll (CUNY Graduate Center)

Series: Foundations of the Philosophy of the Arts

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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

TopTable of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: From Film Theory to the Philosophy of the Moving Image
1. Film as Art
2. Medium Specificity
3. What Is Cinema?
4. The Moving Picture - the Shot
5. Moving Images - Cinematic Sequencing and Narration
6. Affect and the Moving Image
7. Evaluation
Select Bibliography
Index

TopAbout 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).