Interpreting the Moving Image

Interpreting the Moving Image
Author: Noel Carroll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 396
Release: 1998-05-28
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9780521589703

A collection of film essays by the well-respected critic, Noël Carroll.

Words and Images on the Screen

Words and Images on the Screen
Author: Ágnes Pethő
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 405
Release: 2009-03-26
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1443806277

The screen has never been merely a canvas for the images to be displayed but also – to quote Jean-Luc Godard – “a blank page”, a surface for inscriptions and a “stage” for all kinds of linguistic occurrences be their audible or visual. Word did not come into the world of cinema at the time of the talkies but has been a primordial medial “companion” that has shaped the cinematic experience from its very beginnings. This volume offers a collection of essays that question the role of words and images in the context of moving pictures covering a wide area of their interconnectedness. How can we analyse literary adaptations? What is the role of adaptations in the evolution of specific national cinemas? In what way are written texts used in films? Is the model of the word and image relations used in silent films still applicable today? What major paradigms can be discerned within the multiplicity of ways Jean-Luc Godard’s cinema plays with words and images? Are these models of modernist or postmodern cinema reflected in films of other directors like R. W. Fassbinder? How do avant-garde works deal with the word and image debate? What are the connections of animation or computer games with verbal text and narrative? What is the phenomenon of jet-setting and how does it connect to the ideological implications of the relations between the culture of books and films? What happens when Hamlet is completely rewritten reflecting the ideology of late capitalism? What happens from the point of view of literariness or rejection of literariness when films are made vehicles of national propaganda? How do words get mediated through images? These are some of the questions addressed in the present volume by in-depth case studies of cinematic intermediality or more general surveys regarding cinema’s long lasting liaisons with language or literature.

Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures

Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures
Author: Noël Carroll
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 432
Release: 2009-02-09
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 140515201X

Designed for classroom use, this authoritative anthology presentskey selections from the best contemporary work in philosophy offilm. The featured essays have been specially chosen for theirclarity, philosophical depth, and consonance with the current movetowards cognitive film theory Eight sections with introductions cover topics such as thenature of film, film as art, documentary cinema, narration andemotion in film, film criticism, and film's relation to knowledgeand morality Issues addressed include the objectivity of documentary films,fear of movie monsters, and moral questions surrounding the viewingof pornography Replete with examples and discussion of moving picturesthroughout

Philosophy and the Moving Image

Philosophy and the Moving Image
Author: Noël Carroll
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2021
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0190683309

"This book is a selection of essays by Noël Carroll at the intersection of film and TV and major divisions of philosophy including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, politics, and aesthetics"--

Interpreting Anime

Interpreting Anime
Author: Christopher Bolton
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 339
Release: 2018-02-20
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1452956847

For students, fans, and scholars alike, this wide-ranging primer on anime employs a panoply of critical approaches Well-known through hit movies like Spirited Away, Akira, and Ghost in the Shell, anime has a long history spanning a wide range of directors, genres, and styles. Christopher Bolton’s Interpreting Anime is a thoughtful, carefully organized introduction to Japanese animation for anyone eager to see why this genre has remained a vital, adaptable art form for decades. Interpreting Anime is easily accessible and structured around individual films and a broad array of critical approaches. Each chapter centers on a different feature-length anime film, juxtaposing it with a particular medium—like literary fiction, classical Japanese theater, and contemporary stage drama—to reveal what is unique about anime’s way of representing the world. This analysis is abetted by a suite of questions provoked by each film, along with Bolton’s incisive responses. Throughout, Interpreting Anime applies multiple frames, such as queer theory, psychoanalysis, and theories of postmodernism, giving readers a thorough understanding of both the cultural underpinnings and critical significance of each film. What emerges from the sweep of Interpreting Anime is Bolton’s original, articulate case for what makes anime unique as a medium: how it at once engages profound social and political realities while also drawing attention to the very challenges of representing reality in animation’s imaginative and compelling visual forms.

Engaging the Moving Image

Engaging the Moving Image
Author: Noel Carroll
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2008-10-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0300133073

Noël Carroll, a brilliant and provocative philosopher of film, has gathered in this book eighteen of his most recent essays on cinema and television—what Carroll calls “moving images.” The essays discuss topics in philosophy, film theory, and film criticism. Drawing on concepts from cognitive psychology and analytic philosophy, Carroll examines a wide range of fascinating topics. These include film attention, the emotional address of the moving image, film and racism, the nature and epistemology of documentary film, the moral status of television, the concept of film style, the foundations of film evaluation, the film theory of Siegfried Kracauer, the ideology of the professional western, and films by Sergei Eisenstein and Yvonne Rainer. Carroll also assesses the state of contemporary film theory and speculates on its prospects. The book continues many of the themes of Carroll’s earlier work Theorizing the Moving Image and develops them in new directions. A general introduction by George Wilson situates Carroll’s essays in relation to his view of moving-image studies.

Ecologies of the Moving Image

Ecologies of the Moving Image
Author: Adrian J. Ivakhiv
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Total Pages: 433
Release: 2013-10-07
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1554589061

This book presents an ecophilosophy of cinema: an account of the moving image in relation to the lived ecologies – material, social, and perceptual relations – within which movies are produced, consumed, and incorporated into cultural life. If cinema takes us on mental and emotional journeys, the author argues that those journeys that have reshaped our understanding of ourselves, life, and the Earth and universe. A range of styles are examined, from ethnographic and wildlife documentaries, westerns and road movies, sci-fi blockbusters and eco-disaster films to the experimental and art films of Tarkovsky, Herzog, Malick, and Brakhage, to YouTube’s expanding audio-visual universe.

Mystifying Movies

Mystifying Movies
Author: Noël Carroll
Publisher:
Total Pages: 262
Release: 1988
Genre: Film criticism
ISBN: 9780231059558