This volume of new essays energizes a growing movement in film theory which questions and seeks to overturn many of the assumptions that have governed film theory for the last twenty years. The book brings together film scholars and philosophers in a united commitment to the standards of argumentation that characterize analytic philosophy rather than a single doctrinal approach. The essays address such topics as authorship, emotion, ideology, representation, and expression in film.
This volume of new essays energizes a growing movement in film theory which questions and seeks to overturn many of the assumptions that have governed...
During the period covered by this book - from the beginning of the 18th century to World War I - London was unique in its immensity, and supremely representative of the modern urban world in the making. Its overall size, its rate of growth, and the increasingly dense and diverse crowds that flowed through its streets, were paralleled in the vast contemporary outpouring of writing about this great city. The varied selection of this abundance of writing presented in this volume incorporates work by Daniel Defoe, James Boswell, Horace Walpole, Flora Tristan, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens,...
During the period covered by this book - from the beginning of the 18th century to World War I - London was unique in its immensity, and supremely rep...
During the period covered by this book - from the beginning of the 18th century to World War I - London was unique in its immensity, and supremely representative of the modern urban world in the making. Its overall size, its rate of growth, and the increasingly dense and diverse crowds that flowed through its streets, were paralleled in the vast contemporary outpouring of writing about this great city. The varied selection of this abundance of writing presented in this volume incorporates work by Daniel Defoe, James Boswell, Horace Walpole, Flora Tristan, Charlotte Bronte, Charles Dickens,...
During the period covered by this book - from the beginning of the 18th century to World War I - London was unique in its immensity, and supremely rep...
Projecting Illusion offers a systematic analysis of the impression of reality in the cinema and the pleasure it provides the film spectator. Film affords an especially compelling aesthetic experience that can be considered as a form of illusion akin to the experience of daydream and dream. Examining the concept of illusion and its relationship to fantasy in the experience of visual representation, Richard Allen situates his explanation within the context of an analytical criticism of contemporary film theory.
Projecting Illusion offers a systematic analysis of the impression of reality in the cinema and the pleasure it provides the film spectator. Film affo...
Hitchcock Annual: Volume 19 is forthcoming in the fall of 2014. It will include articles on Hitchcock's silent film work and an analysis of Hitchock's Rear Window (1954).
Hitchcock Annual: Volume 19 is forthcoming in the fall of 2014. It will include articles on Hitchcock's silent film work and an analysis of Hit...
