Aesthetics and film /
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Author / Creator: | Thomson-Jones, Katherine. |
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Imprint: | London ; New York : Continuum, ©2008. |
Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 148 pages) |
Language: | English |
Series: | Continuum aesthetics Continuum aesthetics. |
Subject: | Motion pictures -- Aesthetics. Films, cinema. Philosophy: aesthetics. PERFORMING ARTS -- Film & Video -- History & Criticism. Motion pictures -- Aesthetics. Filmästhetik Electronic books. |
Format: | E-Resource Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11285512 |
Summary: | 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. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 148 pages) |
Format: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-142) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781441171535 1441171533 9781441128300 1441128301 1472545338 9781472545336 1282875728 9781282875722 9786612875724 6612875720 0826485227 9780826485229 0826485235 9780826485236 |
Access: | Legal Deposit; |