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Author:   Richard Allen (Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University) ,  Murray Smith (Lecturer in Film Studies, Lecturer in Film Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.682kg
ISBN:  

9780198159889

ISBN 10:   0198159889
Pages:   486
Publication Date:   13 May 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Richard Allen and Murray Smith: Introduction: Film Theory and Philosophy PART 1 What is Cinematic Representation 1: Gregory Currie: The Film Theory that Never Was: A Nervous Manifesto 2: Kendall L. Walton: On Pictures and Photographs: Objections Answered 3: Richard Allen: Looking at Motion Pictures 4: Edward Branigan: Sound, Epistemology, Film PART 2 Meaning, Authorship, and Intention 5: Paisley Livingston: Cinematic Authorship 6: Berys Gaut: Film Authorship and Collaboration 7: Noel Carroll: Fiction, Non-Fiction, and the Film of Presumptive Assertion: A Conceptual Analysis 8: Trevor Ponech: What is Non-Fiction Cinema? 9: George Wilson: On Film Narrative and Narrative Meaning PART 3 Ideology and Ethics 10: Jennifer Hammett: The Ideological Impediment: Epistemology, Feminism, and Film Theory 11: Hector Rodriguez: Ideology and Film Culture 12: Tommy Lott: Aesthetics and Politics in Contemporary Black Film Theory PART 4 Aesthetics 13: Peter Kivy: Music in the Movies: A Philosophical Enquiry 14: Flo Leibowitz: Personal Agency Theories of Expressiveness and the Movies 15: Deborah Knight: Aristotelians on Speed: Paradoxes of Genre in the Context of Cinema PART 5 Emotional Response 16: Carl Plantinga: Notes on Spectator Emotion and Ideological Film Criticism 17: Dirk Eitzen: Comedy and Criticism 18: Murray Smith: Imagining from the Inside: POV, Imagining Seeing, and Empathy 19: Malcolm Turvey: Seeing Theory: On Perception and Emotional Response in Current Film Theory Select Bibliography Index

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`The contributions are all of a high standard. Problems are clearly defined, concepts clarified, fine distinctions drawn, objections considered, and supporting evidence purveyed. In their documentation, scrupulous attention to opposing arguments, integrity, and clarity of reasoning, the contributions are models of professional academic philosophy ... The many virtues of the analytical tradition are manifest in chapter after chapter ... This anthology merits close perusal by anyone interested in genuine film theory.' Trevor Whittock, Brit Jrnl of Aesthetics, Vol 39, no 3, 1999 `Admirably edited by Allen and Smith, who contribute an excellent introductory chapter summing up the argument against the continentals ...' W. A. Vincent, Michigan State University, CHOICE sept 98, vol 36, no 2

The contributions are all of a high standard. Problems are clearly defined, concepts clarified, fine distinctions drawn, objections considered, and supporting evidence purveyed. In their documentation, scrupulous attention to opposing arguments, integrity, and clarity of reasoning, the contributions are models of professional academic philosophy ... The many virtues of the analytical tradition are manifest in chapter after chapter ... This anthology merits close perusal by anyone interested in genuine film theory. Trevor Whittock, Brit Jrnl of Aesthetics, Vol 39, no 3, 1999 Admirably edited by Allen and Smith, who contribute an excellent introductory chapter summing up the argument against the continentals ... W. A. Vincent, Michigan State University, CHOICE sept 98, vol 36, no 2

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Richard Allen is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University Murray Smith is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Kent at Canterbury

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