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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      28 October 2009
      29 September 1995
      ISBN:
      9780511551277
      9780521453561
      9780521057783
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511551277
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.568kg, 332 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.542kg, 332 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Film, Ethics, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Philosophy
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    Subjects:
    Film, Ethics, Film, Media, Mass Communication, Philosophy
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    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. The central thesis is that film is essentially a pictorial medium and that the movement of film images is real rather than illusory. A general theory of pictorial representation is presented, which insists on the realism of pictures and the impossibility of assimilating them to language. It criticizes attempts to explain the psychology of film viewing in terms of the viewer's imaginary occupation of a position within the world of film. On the contrary, film viewing is nearly always impersonal.

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    "Currie is often provocative, as when he analyzes the nature of film images and when he criticizes the theory of 'suture.'" Choice

    "In this important and impressive book, Gregory Currie tackles several fundamental topics in the philosophy of film and says much of general interest about the nature of imagination...Currie's book is a major contribution to the developing field of the philosophy of film, and also has important things to say about aesthetics and the philosophy of mind. It deserves to be widely read and admired." Berys Gaut, The Philosophical Review

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