Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures : An Anthology.

Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- General Introduction -- Part I Film as Art -- Introduction -- 1 Photography and Representation -- 2 The Aesthetics of Photographic Transparency -- 3 Everybody Gets a Cut: DVDs Give Viewers Dozens of Choices - and that's the Problem -- Part II What Is Film? -- Introduction -- 4 The World Viewed -- 5 A Note on the Film -- 6 Vision and Dream in the Cinema -- 7 The Long Goodbye: The Imaginary Language of Film -- 8 Moving Pictures -- 9 Defining the Moving Image -- Part III Documentary -- Introduction -- 10 Visible Traces: Documentary and the Contents of Photographs -- 11 Fiction, Non-Fiction, and the Film of Presumptive Assertion: A Conceptual Analysis -- Part IV Film Narrative/Narration -- Introduction -- 12 Le Grand Imagier Steps Out: The Primitive Basis of Film Narration -- 13 Unreliability Refigured: Narrative in Literature and Film -- Part V Film and Emotion -- Introduction -- 14 Film, Emotion, and Genre -- 15 Fearing Fictions -- 16 Empathy and (Film) Fiction -- 17 Identification and Emotion in Narrative Film -- 18 In Fictional Shoes: Mental Simulation and Fiction -- Part VI Topics in Film Criticism -- Introduction -- 19 Morals for Method -- 20 Cinematic Authorship -- 21 National Cinema, the Very Idea -- Part VII Film and Ethics -- Introduction -- 22 Film Criticism and Virtue Theory -- 23 Beauty and Evil: The Case of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will -- 24 A First Look at the Pornography/Civil Rights Ordinance: Could Pornography Be the Subordination of Women? -- Part VIII Film and Knowledge -- Introduction -- 25 The Philosophical Limits of Film -- 26 Minerva in the Movies: Relations Between Philosophy and Film -- 27 Motion Pictures as a Philosophical Resource -- Select Bibliography by Jinhee Choi -- Index.

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