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Philosophy of Cinematic Art

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ISBN-10: 0521529646

ISBN-13: 9780521529648

Edition: 2010

Authors: Berys Gaut

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List price: $47.99
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 1/14/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 340
Size: 6.10" wide x 8.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

List of illustrations
Preface
Introduction
Film theory and philosophy
Moving image technologies
The challenges to cinema as an art
The causal challenge
The reproduction challenge
Film and communication
Digital cinema as art
Language and realism
Film as a language
Digital cinema and language
Realism: traditional and digital cinema
Transparency: traditional and digital cinema
Cinematic authorship
Two puzzles
Varieties of auteurism
Minimal auteurism
Three strategies for single authorship
Cinematic utterance and single authorship
Ontology and multiple authorship
The multiple-authorship view refined
Digital cinema and authorship
Interactivity and authorship
Understanding cinema
Intentionalism
Constructivism
The patchwork theory
Digital cinema and interpretation
Cinematic narration
Symmetry or asymmetry?
The a priori argument
Three models of implicit cinematic narrators
Absurd imaginings and silly questions
Literary narrators
Other narrative features
Interactive narration
Emotion and identification
Emotion and cinema
The concept of identification
Identification and film techniques
Identification and emotional learning
Emotion and interaction
The role of the medium
Two tendencies in the philosophy of art
Medium-specificity claims
Evaluating artworks
Explaining artistic features
Media and art forms
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index