The Palgrave Handbook Of The Philosophy Of Film And Motion Pictures

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxvi Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Film Ontology: Extension, Criteria and Candidates (Frank Boardman)....Pages 3-27 Medium Specificity (Noël Carroll)....Pages 29-47 The Moving Image (Nick Wiltsher, Aaron Meskin)....Pages 49-69 The Art of Cinematography (Patrick Keating)....Pages 71-93 Front Matter ....Pages 95-95 Silly Questions and Arguments for the Implicit, Cinematic Narrator (Angela Curran)....Pages 97-117 Narrative and the Moving Image (Patrick Keating)....Pages 119-141 On Rhythm in Film Editing (Karen Pearlman)....Pages 143-163 Animation (David Davies)....Pages 165-187 Sound in Film (Paloma Atencia-Linares)....Pages 189-214 What Is a Screenplay? (Ted Nannicelli)....Pages 215-234 Front Matter ....Pages 235-235 Analytic Philosophy of Film: (Contrasted with Continental Film Theory) (Richard Eldridge)....Pages 237-258 When the Twain Shall Meet: On the Divide Between Analytic and Continental Film Philosophy (John Ó Maoilearca)....Pages 259-283 The Phenomenological Movement in Context of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures (Shawn Loht)....Pages 285-313 Ideology and Experience: The Legacy of Critical Theory (Espen Hammer)....Pages 315-333 Stanley Cavell: What Becomes of People on Film? (Paul Guyer)....Pages 335-356 Film Art from the Analytic Perspective (Deborah Knight)....Pages 357-379 Cognitive Theory of the Moving Image (Carl Plantinga)....Pages 381-408 Aesthetic Criticism (Andrew Klevan)....Pages 409-439 Poststructuralism and Film (Robert Sinnerbrink)....Pages 441-465 Front Matter ....Pages 467-467 Thoughtful Films, Thoughtful Fictions: The Philosophical Terrain Between Illustrations and Thought Experiments (E. M. Dadlez)....Pages 469-490 Contemporary Philosophical Filmmaking (Thomas E. Wartenberg)....Pages 491-511 Filmosophy/Film as Philosophy (Robert Sinnerbrink)....Pages 513-539 Front Matter ....Pages 541-541 The Auteur Theory in the Age of the Mini-Series (Douglas Lackey)....Pages 543-549 The Question of Poetic Cinema (Tom Gunning)....Pages 551-571 Avant-Garde Films as Philosophy (Malcolm Turvey)....Pages 573-600 Front Matter ....Pages 601-601 Show and Tell: The Identification of Documentary Film (Vitor Moura)....Pages 603-626 The Autobiographical Documentary (Laura T. Di Summa)....Pages 627-650 Front Matter ....Pages 651-651 Feminist Philosophy of Film (Zoë Cunliffe)....Pages 653-675 Race in Film (Lewis R. Gordon)....Pages 677-697 How Do We Look So Far? Notes Toward a Queer-Film Philosophy (David A. Gerstner)....Pages 699-720 Film, Art, and Pornography (Jacob M. Held)....Pages 721-755 Propaganda and the Moving Image (Sheryl Tuttle Ross)....Pages 757-780 Front Matter ....Pages 781-781 Film and Fine Art: Automatism, Automata and “The Myth of Total Cinema” in The Red Shoes and The Tales of Hoffmann (Kristin Boyce)....Pages 783-800 The Sonic Art of Film and the Sonic Arts in Film (John Dyck)....Pages 801-821 Adaptation, Translation, and Philosophical Investigation in Adaptation (Garry L. Hagberg)....Pages 823-841 Front Matter ....Pages 843-843 Imagination and Film (Jonathan Gilmore)....Pages 845-863 Empathy and Sympathy: Two Contemporary Models of Character Engagement (Daniel Jerónimo Tobón)....Pages 865-891 Affect and Motion Pictures (Jesse Prinz)....Pages 893-921 Psychoanalysis and the Philosophy of Film (Nickolas Pappas)....Pages 923-945 Front Matter ....Pages 947-947 The Television Medium (Ted Nannicelli)....Pages 949-970 Videogames and Film (Jon Robson, Aaron Meskin)....Pages 971-994 Virtual Reality as an Emerging Art Medium and Its Immersive Affordances (Gal Raz)....Pages 995-1014 Back Matter ....Pages 1015-1061