The Philosophy of Motion Pictures [Paperback]

Philosophy of Motion Pictures is a first-of-its-kind, bottom-up introduction to this bourgeoning field of study. Topics include film as art, medium specificity, defining motion pictures, representation, editing, narrative, emotion and evaluation.

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• Clearly written and supported with a wealth of examples
  
• Explores characterizations of key elements of motion pictures –the shot, the sequence, the erotetic narrative, and its modes of affective address

Acknowledgments.

Introduction: From Film Theory to the Philosophy of the Moving Image.

1. Film as Art.

2. Medium Specificity.

3. What Is Cinema?.

4. The Moving Picture – the Shot.

5. Moving Images – Cinematic Sequencing and Narration.

6. Affect and the Moving Image.

7. Evaluation.

Select Bibliography.

Index

As the very first introduction to philosophy of film… The Philosophy of Motion Pictures is ideal for generating new and wider philosophical interest in film as a technologically evolving art form.  …[The book] does beautifully what any good introduction should: It leaves us with a sense of deeper understanding but also an eagerness to continue the conversation. (Katherine Thomson-Jones, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism (vol. 66, issue 4))

Carroll is arguably the foremost philosopher of film writing today. With the assistance of a handful of other philosophers, he has created a vital and lively philosophical specialty out of a field that was mostly moribund prior to the 1980s. The Philosophy of Motion Pictures deserves study by anyone serilCá