Image and Mind
Film, Philosophy and Cognitive Science
- Author: Gregory Currie, Flinders University of South Australia
- Date Published: February 1996
- availability: Available
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521453561
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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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- Date Published: February 1996
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521453561
- length: 332 pages
- dimensions: 235 x 158 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.568kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction: the essence of cinema
Part I: Representation in Film
1. The myth of illusion
2. The imprint of nature
3. Realism
4. Languages of art and languages of film
Part II: Imagination
5. Imagination, the general theory
6. Imagination, personal and impersonal
7. Travels in narrative time
Part III: Interpretation
8. The interpretative problem
9. Narrative and narrators.
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