Carroll, Noël, 1947-

Engaging the moving image [electronic resource] / Noël Carroll. - Yale University Press, c2003. - 1 online resource (xxv, 420 p.) - Yale series in the philosophy and theory of art. . - Yale series in the philosophy and theory of art. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Forget the medium! -- Film, attention, and communication : a naturalistic account -- Film, emotion, and genre -- Ethnicity, race and monstrosity : the rhetorics of horror and humor -- Is the medium a (Moral) message? -- Film form : an argument for a functional theory of style in the individual film -- Introducing film evaluation -- Nonfiction film and postmodernist skepticism -- Fiction, nonfiction, and the film of presumptive assertion : conceptual analyses -- Photographic traces and documentary films : comments for Gregory Currie -- Toward a definition of moving-picture dance -- The essence of Cinema? -- TV and film : a philosophical perspective -- Kracauer's Theory of film -- Cinematic nation building : Eisenstein's The old and the new -- The professional western : South of the border -- Moving and moving : from minimalism to lives of performers -- Prospects for film theory : a personal assessment.

0300133073 (electronic bk.) 9780300133073 (electronic bk.)


Motion pictures--Philosophy.
Motion pictures.
Cinéma--Philosophie.
Cinéma.
PERFORMING ARTS--Film & Video--History & Criticism.
Films.
Analyse (algemeen)
Filmtheorie.


Electronic books.
Computer network resources.

PN1995 / .C3557 2003eb

791.43/01