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 | | Image and Mind: Film, Philosophy and Cognitive Science by Gregory Currie ISBN-10: 9780521453561 ISBN-10: 0-521-45356-9 ISBN-13: 9780521453561 ISBN-13: 978-0-521-45356-1 Hardcover 1995-09-29 Cambridge University Press Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description This is a book about the nature of film: about the nature of moving images, about the viewer's relation to film, and about the kinds of narrative that film is capable of presenting. It represents a very decisive break with the semiotic and psychoanalytic theories of film that have dominated discussion over the past twenty years. Professor Currie provides a general theory of pictorial narration and its interpretation in both pictorial and linguistic media, and concludes with an analysis of some ways in which film narrative and literary narrative differ. | ||
Book Description This is a book about the nature of film: about the nature of moving images, about the viewer's relation to film, and about the kinds of narrative that film is capable of presenting. It represents a very decisive break with the semiotic and psychoanalytic theories of film which have dominated discussion over the last twenty years.Professor Currie provides a general theory of pictorial narration and its interpretation in both pictorial and linguistic media, and concludes with an analysis of some ways in which film narrative and literary narrative differ. | ||
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Articulation of fertile ideas on the philosophy of film Written in 1995, Currie's Arguments are Concise, Persuasive on the topic of, generally, what is cinema. Currie's Bibliography includes: Carroll, Noel Dennett, Daniel Eco, Umberto Lewis, David Metz, Christian Walton, Kendall In college & graduate school, I have found writings on film studies, particularly those which apply psychoanalysis & semiotics, generally stodgy & often impenetrable. Even Mulvey's seminal, infamous essay on "Visual Pleasure" is hard to understand from the standpoint of a rationalist. Currie's approach is Concise & persuasive; I think he's an analytic philosopher. He counter-argues against "film as a language," which I suppose is metaphorical at best (nevertheless, this language concept is found in many respectable film studies textbooks). His writing is accessible for college level & up; he applies findings in Cognitive Science to his arguments For the fictional film. Noel Carroll, a film studies iconoclast, embraces this book with one caveat: avant-garde films, films that are more purely visual than pictorial, are not tackled sufficiently here. Here's a quick glimpse at the book, offered by University of Houston's Cognitive Science website. It is highly possible to shape an advanced undergraduate course on the philosophy of film (mixed in with Philosophy of the Mind) with this book using such films as: Antonioni's "Blow-Up" Linklater's "Before Sunset" Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction" Soderbergh's "The Limey" Haneke's "Cache" Bier's "Brothers" Hitchcock's "Spellbound" Currie's next book "Arts & Minds" was released in January 2005. | ||