Refractions of Reality: Philosophy and the Moving Image
Refractions of Reality: Philosophy and the Moving Image

Author: John Mullarkey

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-12-11

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0230582311

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This is the first book to explore all central issues surrounding the relationship between the film-image and philosophy. It tackles the work of particular philosophers of film (Žižek, Deleuze and Cavell) as well as general philosophical positions (Cognitivist and Culturalist), and analyses the ability of film to teach and create philosophy.

Philosophy and the Moving Image
Philosophy and the Moving Image

Author: Noël Carroll

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2021-06-25

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 0190683325

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A wide-ranging, eclectic collection of essays on philosophy and the moving image by a pre-eminent philosopher of art This volume presents a selection of philosopher Noël Carroll's essays-several of which appear in print here for the first time-at the intersection of philosophy, film, and television. The volume begins with broad, foundational issues-what the moving image is, the nature of the medium of film and how we should evaluate it-engaging critically with the most essential problems and puzzles in the field. Carroll then moves to more focused issues in the philosophy of film and television. He reflects on whether ethical defects in fictional characters such as Tony Soprano have an impact on artistic excellence; the role of films in political debates (using the examples of Star Trek and Planet of the Apes); the question of whether film can do philosophy in its own way; and philosophical themes in avant-garde cinema. His analysis touches on a broad range of areas in philosophy including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics. The book then concludes with philosophical re-assessments of key figures in the philosophy of the moving image-Sergei Eisenstein, Arthur Danto, Bela Balasz, and Stanley Cavell. A wide-ranging and eclectic collection of work by a major figure in aesthetics and the philosophy of film and television, this volume will appeal to scholars, students, and cinephiles alike.

Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures
Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures

Author: Noël Carroll

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2009-02-09

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 140515201X

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Designed for classroom use, this authoritative anthology presentskey selections from the best contemporary work in philosophy offilm. The featured essays have been specially chosen for theirclarity, philosophical depth, and consonance with the current movetowards cognitive film theory Eight sections with introductions cover topics such as thenature of film, film as art, documentary cinema, narration andemotion in film, film criticism, and film's relation to knowledgeand morality Issues addressed include the objectivity of documentary films,fear of movie monsters, and moral questions surrounding the viewingof pornography Replete with examples and discussion of moving picturesthroughout

New Philosophies of Film
New Philosophies of Film

Author: Robert Sinnerbrink

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-10-13

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1441153438

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A concise but comprehensive student guide to studying Emily Bronte's classic novel Wuthering Heights. It covers adaptations such as film and TV versions of the novel and student-friendly features include discussion points and a comprehensive guide to further reading.

Engaging the Moving Image
Engaging the Moving Image

Author: Noel Carroll

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2008-10-01

Total Pages: 448

ISBN-13: 0300133073

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Noël Carroll, a brilliant and provocative philosopher of film, has gathered in this book eighteen 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. Drawing on concepts from cognitive psychology and analytic philosophy, Carroll examines a wide range of fascinating topics. These include film attention, the emotional address of the moving image, film and racism, the nature and epistemology of documentary film, the moral status of television, the concept of film style, the foundations of film evaluation, the film theory of Siegfried Kracauer, the ideology of the professional western, and films by Sergei Eisenstein and Yvonne Rainer. Carroll also assesses the state of contemporary film theory and speculates on its prospects. The book continues many of the themes of Carroll’s earlier work Theorizing the Moving Image and develops them in new directions. A general introduction by George Wilson situates Carroll’s essays in relation to his view of moving-image studies.

Ecologies of the Moving Image
Ecologies of the Moving Image

Author: Adrian J. Ivakhiv

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2013-10-07

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 1554589061

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This book presents an ecophilosophy of cinema: an account of the moving image in relation to the lived ecologies – material, social, and perceptual relations – within which movies are produced, consumed, and incorporated into cultural life. If cinema takes us on mental and emotional journeys, the author argues that those journeys that have reshaped our understanding of ourselves, life, and the Earth and universe. A range of styles are examined, from ethnographic and wildlife documentaries, westerns and road movies, sci-fi blockbusters and eco-disaster films to the experimental and art films of Tarkovsky, Herzog, Malick, and Brakhage, to YouTube’s expanding audio-visual universe.

A Philosophy of Cinematic Art
A Philosophy of Cinematic Art

Author: Berys Gaut

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-01-14

Total Pages: 339

ISBN-13: 0521822440

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A wide-ranging and accessible study of cinema as an art form, discussing traditional photographic films, digital cinema, and videogames.

What Philosophy Wants from Images
What Philosophy Wants from Images

Author: D. N. Rodowick

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2018-01-08

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13: 022651322X

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In recent decades, contemporary art has displayed an ever increasing and complicated fascination with the cinema—or, perhaps more accurately, as D. N. Rodowick shows, a certain memory of cinema. Contemporary works of film, video, and moving image installation mine a vast and virtual archive of cultural experience through elliptical and discontinuous fragments of remembered images, even as the lived experience of film and photography recedes into the past, supplanted by the digital. Rodowick here explores work by artists such as Ken Jacobs, Ernie Gehr, Victor Burgin, Harun Farocki, and others—artists who are creating forms that express a new historical consciousness of images. These forms acknowledge a complex relationship to the disappearing past even as they point toward new media that will challenge viewers’ confidence in what the images they see are or are becoming. What philosophy wants from images, Rodowick shows, is to renew itself conceptually through deep engagement with new forms of aesthetic experience.

Plato and the Moving Image
Plato and the Moving Image

Author: Shai Biderman

Publisher: Brill

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789004398108

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Plato and the Moving Image shows how and why debates in the philosophy of film can be advanced through the study of the role of images in Plato's dialogues, and vice versa.

The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures
The Palgrave Handbook of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures

Author: Noël Carroll

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2019-10-30

Total Pages: 1047

ISBN-13: 3030196011

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This handbook brings together essays in the philosophy of film and motion pictures from authorities across the spectrum. It boasts contributions from philosophers and film theorists alike, with many essays employing pluralist approaches to this interdisciplinary subject. Core areas treated include film ontology, film structure, psychology, authorship, narrative, and viewer emotion. Emerging areas of interest, including virtual reality, video games, and nonfictional and autobiographical film also have dedicated chapters. Other areas of focus include the film medium’s intersection with contemporary social issues, film’s kinship to other art forms, and the influence of historically seminal schools of thought in the philosophy of film. Of emphasis in many of the essays is the relationship and overlap of analytic and continental perspectives in this subject.