| Description |
1 online resource (xxv, 420 pages) |
| Series |
Yale series in the philosophy and theory of art |
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Yale series in the philosophy and theory of art.
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| Contents |
Forget the medium! -- Film, attention, and communication : a naturalistic account -- Film, emotion, and genre -- Ethnicity, race and monstrosity : the rhetorics of horror and humor -- Is the medium a (Moral) message? -- Film form : an argument for a functional theory of style in the individual film -- Introducing film evaluation -- Nonfiction film and postmodernist skepticism -- Fiction, nonfiction, and the film of presumptive assertion : conceptual analyses -- Photographic traces and documentary films : comments for Gregory Currie -- Toward a definition of moving-picture dance -- The essence of Cinema? -- TV and film : a philosophical perspective -- Kracauer's Theory of film -- Cinematic nation building : Eisenstein's The old and the new -- The professional western : South of the border -- Moving and moving : from minimalism to lives of performers -- Prospects for film theory : a personal assessment |
| Summary |
Noël Carroll, film philosopher, has gathered in this book 18 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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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Motion pictures.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism.
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Motion pictures
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Motion pictures -- Philosophy
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Films.
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Analyse (algemeen)
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Filmtheorie.
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| Genre/Form |
Computer network resources
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Motion pictures
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Motion pictures.
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Films.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2003049678 |
| ISBN |
0300133073 |
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9780300133073 |
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0300091958 |
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9780300091953 |
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1281731277 |
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9781281731272 |
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9786611731274 |
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661173127X |
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