Theorizing the Moving Image brings together a selection of essays written by one of the leading critics of film over the past two decades. In this volume, Noël Carroll examines theoretical aspects of film and television through penetrating analyses of such genres as soap opera, documentary, and comedy, and such topics as sight gags, film metaphor, point-of-view editing, and movie music. Throughout, individual films are considered in depth. Carroll's essays, moreover, represent the cognitivist turn in film studies, containing in-depth criticism of existing approaches to film theory, and heralding a new approach to film theory.
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"Professor Carroll has, in one densely packed collection of thought-provoking essays, forever changed the past, present and future of film theory. His rationale reintroduces creativity to a genre burdened with well-intentioned, but ultimately binding and counter-productive rules imposed by an emerging pool of critics. Professor Carroll answers his own critics with clarity and objectivity, and gives logical arguments in favor of a new approach. This volume will, no doubt, perplex and provoke students of film theory for years to come." Midwest Book Review
"For its breadth of scholarship, its fecundity of ideas, and its rigor in argument, Theorizing the Moving Image deserves a place on the shelves of anyone interested in the study of film." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
"For its breadth of scholarship, its fecundity of ideas, and its rigor in argument, Theorizing the Moving Image deserves a place on the shelves of anyone interested in the study of film." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism
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Written by a leading film critic, this volume consists of penetrating analyses of soap opera, documentary, comedy, sight gags, film metaphor, point-of-view editing, movie music, etc. Containing in depth criticism of existing approaches, the essays represent the cognitivist turn in film studies.
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- Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography by Roland Barthes on 5 pages
- Mystifying Movies: Fads and Fallacies in Contemporary Film Theory by Noel Carroll on 4 pages
- Citizen Kane (Screenplay) by Orson Welles on page 45, page 54, and page 280
- Film as Art: 50th Anniversary Printing by Rudolf Arnheim on page 23, page 286, and page 295
- Orson Welles by Andre Bazin on page 45, page 280, and page 287
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- Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies) by No?l Carroll on 9 pages
- Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures: An Anthology (Blackwell Philosophy Anthologies) by No?l Carroll on 9 pages
- The Cognitive Semiotics of Film by Warren Buckland on 4 pages
- Reality Transformed: Film and Meaning and Technique by Irving Singer on 4 pages
- A Philosophy of Mass Art by Noï¿1/2l Carroll on 4 pages
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