Image and mind : film, philosophy and cognitive science / Gregory Currie.
"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 domina...
Saved in:
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
1995.
|
| Subjects: |
| Summary: | "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 over the last twenty years. 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 criticises 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."--Publisher description. |
|---|---|
| Physical Description: | xxiv, 301 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-296) and index. |
| ISBN: | 0521453569 9780521453561 0521057787 9780521057783 |