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Record Nr.

UNINA9910967396203321

Autore

Thomson-Jones Katherine

Titolo

Aesthetics and film / / Katherine Thomson-Jones

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , 2008

ISBN

9786612875724

9781441128300

1441128301

9781472545336

1472545338

9781282875722

1282875728

9781441171535

1441171533

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (159 p.)

Collana

Continuum aesthetics

Disciplina

791.4301

Soggetti

Motion pictures - Aesthetics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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