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Aesthetics and Film

By Katherine Thomson-Jones

Aesthetics and Film Philosophy

Aesthetics and Film

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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.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
160
Release Date:
2008-12-23
Publication Date:
2008-10-23
Publisher:
Bloomsbury 3PL
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0826485227
ISBN13:
9780826485229
Weight:
341 g
Height:
145 cm
Width:
222 cm
Thickness:
12 cm
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