Philosophy of Film

An Anthology

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Edited by Jinhee Choi and Noel Carroll

Blackwell Publishers

Due/Published September 2005, 480 pages, paper

ISBN 1405120274

Contents

Preface

Introduction

Introduction

1 Roger Scruton

Photography and Representation

2 Dominic McIver Lopes

The Aesthetics of Photographic Transparency

3 Terrence Rafferty

Everybody Gets a Cut: DVDs Give Viewers Dozens of Choices -- and That's the Problem

Introduction

4 Stanley Cavell

From The World Viewed

5 Susanne K. Langer

A Note on the Film

6 F. E. Sparshott

Vision and Dream in the Cinema

7 Gregory Currie

The Long Goodbye: The ImaginaryLanguage of Film

8 Arthur C. Danto

Moving Pictures

9 Noël Carroll

Defining the Moving Image

Introduction

10 Gregory Currie

Visible Traces: Documentary and the Contents of Photographs

11 Noël Carroll

Fiction, Non-Fiction, and the Film of Presumptive Assertion: A Conceptual Analysis

Part IV: Film Narrative/Narration

Introduction

12 George Wilson

Le Grand Imagier Steps Out: The Primitive Basis of Film Narration

13 Gregory Currie

Unreliability Refigured: Narrative in Literature and Film

Part V: Film and Emotion

Introduction

14 Noël Carroll

Film, Emotion, and Genre

15 Kendall Walton

Fearing Fictions

16 Alex Neill

Empathy and (Film) Fiction

17 Berys Gaut

Identification and Emotion in Narrative Film

18 Deborah Knight

In Fictional Shoes: Mental Simulation and Fiction

Part VI: Topics in Film Criticism

Introduction

19 George M. Wilson

Morals for Method

20 Paisley Livingston

Cinematic Authorship

21 Jinhee Choi

National Cinema, the Very Idea

Part VII: Film and Ethics

Introduction

22 Joseph H. Kupfer

Film Criticism and Virtue Theory

23 Mary Devereaux

Beauty and Evil: The Case of Leni Riefenstahl’s Triumph of the Will

24 Melinda Vadas

A First Look at the Pornography: Civil Rights Ordinance: Could Pornography Be the Subordination of Women?

Part VIII: Film and Knowledge

Introduction

25 Bruce Russell

The Philosophical Limits of Film

26 Karen Hanson

Minerva in the Movies: Relations Between Philosophy and Film

27 Lester H. Hunt

Motion Pictures as a Philosophical Resource

Select Bibliography

Index