The Philosophy of Motion Pictures

The Philosophy of Motion Pictures
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256
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9781405120258
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Книги издательства Willey

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The philosophy of motion pictures has typically been explored in a top–down fashion, whereby the essence of motion pictures is identified – usually understood in terms of photographic film – and every other feature of the film is weighed in relation to that essence. The Philosophy of Motion Pictures offers a new approach, championing the concept of the moving image in a more freestyle manner. Motion pictures are defined in a way that not only embraces the media in which moving images exist, but which also affirms the variety of purposes they may legitimately serve. Characterizations of key cinematic elements – the shot, the sequence, the erotetic narrative, and its modes of affective address – are not deduced from first principles, but rather from topic to topic in a piecemeal fashion. The result is a more pluralistic review of this emerging field of study than is found in more conventional texts on film theory. Topics include film as art, mediumspecificity,...

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