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Noel Carroll and Film: A Philosophy of Art and Popular Culture

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Noel Carroll and Film: A Philosophy of Art and Popular Culture
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Mario Slugan
SeriesFilm Thinks
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:232
Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 138
Category/GenreTheory of art
Film theory and criticism
Philosophy - aesthetics
ISBN/Barcode 9781350175013
ClassificationsDewey:791.4301
Audience
Tertiary Education (US: College)
Illustrations 10 bw illus

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publication Date 23 July 2020
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Noel Carroll is one of the most prolific, widely-cited and distinguished philosophers of art, but how, specifically, has cinema impacted his thought? This book, one of the first in the acclaimed 'Film Thinks' series, argues that Carroll's background in both cinema and philosophy has been crucial to his overall theory of aesthetics. Often a controversial figure within film studies, as someone who has assertively contested the psychoanalytic, semiotic and Marxist cornerstones of the field, his allegiance to alternative philosophical traditions has similarly polarised his readership. Mario Slugan proposes that Carroll's defence of the notions of truth and objectivity provides a welcome antidote to 'anything goes' attitudes and postmodern scepticism towards art and popular culture, including film. Carroll's thinking has loosened the grip of continental philosophers on cinema studies - from Maurice Merleau-Ponty to Gilles Deleuze and Jacques Lacan - by turning to cognitive and analytical approaches. Slugan goes further to reveal that Carroll's methods of evaluation and interpretation in fact, usefully bridge gaps between these `opposing' sides, to look at artworks anew. Throughout, Slugan revisits and enriches Carroll's definitions of popular art, mass art, horror, humour and other topics and concludes by tracing their origins to this important thinker's relationship with the medium of cinema.

Author Biography

Mario Slugan is Postdoctoral Associate Fellow in the Department of Film and Television Studies and the Department of German Studies at the University of Warwick, UK researching film philosophy and film history. He is the author of Montage as Perceptual Experience: Berlin Alexanderplatz from Doeblin to Fassbinder (2017) and the managing editor of an open-access peer-reviewed academic journal Apparatus: Film, Media and Digital Cultures of Central and Eastern Europe.