Richard Allen and Murray Smith: Introduction: Film Theory and
Philosophy
PART 1 What is Cinematic Representation
1: Gregory Currie: The Film Theory that Never Was: A Nervous
Manifesto
2: Kendall L. Walton: On Pictures and Photographs: Objections
Answered
3: Richard Allen: Looking at Motion Pictures
4: Edward Branigan: Sound, Epistemology, Film
PART 2 Meaning, Authorship, and Intention
5: Paisley Livingston: Cinematic Authorship
6: Berys Gaut: Film Authorship and Collaboration
7: Noel Carroll: Fiction, Non-Fiction, and the Film of Presumptive
Assertion: A Conceptual Analysis
8: Trevor Ponech: What is Non-Fiction Cinema?
9: George Wilson: On Film Narrative and Narrative Meaning
PART 3 Ideology and Ethics
10: Jennifer Hammett: The Ideological Impediment: Epistemology,
Feminism, and Film Theory
11: Hector Rodriguez: Ideology and Film Culture
12: Tommy Lott: Aesthetics and Politics in Contemporary Black Film
Theory
PART 4 Aesthetics
13: Peter Kivy: Music in the Movies: A Philosophical Enquiry
14: Flo Leibowitz: Personal Agency Theories of Expressiveness and
the Movies
15: Deborah Knight: Aristotelians on Speed: Paradoxes of Genre in
the Context of Cinema
PART 5 Emotional Response
16: Carl Plantinga: Notes on Spectator Emotion and Ideological Film
Criticism
17: Dirk Eitzen: Comedy and Criticism
18: Murray Smith: Imagining from the Inside: POV, Imagining Seeing,
and Empathy
19: Malcolm Turvey: Seeing Theory: On Perception and Emotional
Response in Current Film Theory
Select Bibliography
Index
Richard Allen is Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, New York
University
Murray Smith is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Kent
at Canterbury
`The contributions are all of a high standard. Problems are clearly
defined, concepts clarified, fine distinctions drawn, objections
considered, and supporting evidence purveyed. In their
documentation, scrupulous attention to opposing arguments,
integrity, and clarity of reasoning, the contributions are models
of professional academic philosophy ... The many virtues of the
analytical tradition are manifest in chapter after chapter ... This
anthology merits
close perusal by anyone interested in genuine film theory.'
Trevor Whittock, Brit Jrnl of Aesthetics, Vol 39, no 3, 1999
`Admirably edited by Allen and Smith, who contribute an excellent
introductory chapter summing up the argument against the
continentals ...'
W. A. Vincent, Michigan State University, CHOICE sept 98, vol 36,
no 2
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