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Image and Mind: Film, Philosophy and Cognitive Science
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Image and Mind: Film, Philosophy and Cognitive Science
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by Gregory Currie
Sales Rank : 429741
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Paperback: 560 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 1 edition January 28, 2008
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0521057787
ISBN-13: 978-0521057783
Product Dimensions:
8.8 x 6 x 1.1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
Product Review
"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 imaginationCurrie'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
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.
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