UID:
edocfu_9959237005102883
Umfang:
1 online resource (409 p.)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
0-415-76005-4
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1-280-10405-8
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1-135-79466-9
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0-203-22195-8
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9786610104055
Inhalt:
Examines the overlap between film and philosophy in three distinct ways: epistemological issues in film-making and viewing; aesthetic theory and film; and film as a medium of philosophical expression.
Anmerkung:
Includes indexes.
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Cover; PHILOSOPHY OF THE FILM: Epistemology, ontology, aesthetics; Copyright; CONTENTS; PREFACE; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION: ON THE VERY IDEA OF A PHILOSOPHY OF THE FILM: CASABLANCA; 1 PHILOSOPHY AND THE FILM; 2 FILM AS PHILOSOPHY; 3 CASABLANCA AS PHILOSOPHY; 4 CONCLUSION; PART ONE MOVIES AS A PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEM; 1 KNOWLEDGE AND EXISTENCE; 2 PLATO AND THE CAVE; 3 THE GOLDEN MOUNTAIN, USDA APPROVAL AND REALISM; 4 FILMS AND ACADEMIC PHILOSOPHY; 4.1 MUNSTERBERG; 4.2 CAVELL; 4.3 PHENOMENOLOGY, LINDEN, WEISS; PART TWO MOVIES AS AN AESTHETIC PROBLEM; 5 ART AND SCIENCE
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6 AESTHETICS AND ESSENTIALISM7 ARGUMENTS AGAINST FILMS AS ART; 7.1 NEWNESS; 7.11 Less Than One Hundred Years Old; 7.12 Lack of Settled Canons; 7.13 Movies have no Established Criteria of Merit; 7.14 Shallow Traditions of Critical Discussion; 7.2 THE NATURE OF THE MEDIUM; 7.21 Mechanical Reproduction; 7.22 Variety of Forms and Uses; 7.23 Collective Authorship; 7.24 How related to the Older Arts; 7.3 MASS ART; 8 FILMS AS ART; PART THREE PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS ON FILM; 9 PHILOSOPHY; 10 POPULAR PHILOSOPHY; 11 ON INTERPRETATION; 12 CITIZEN KANE AND THE ESSENCE OF A PERSON
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13 RASHOMON: IS TRUTH RELATIVE?14 PERSONA: THE PERSON AS A MASK; 15 WOODY ALLEN AND THE SEARCH FOR MORAL INTEGRITY; 15.1 ANNIE HALL; 15.2 INTERIORS; 15.3 MANHATTAN; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX OF SUBJECTS; INDEX OF NAMES
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English
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-203-29731-8
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0-7102-1016-7
Sprache:
Englisch
