Image and Mind: Film, Philosophy and Cognitive Science

Hardback

Main Details

Title Image and Mind: Film, Philosophy and Cognitive Science
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Gregory Currie
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:332
Dimensions(mm): Height 235,Width 158
Category/GenreFilm theory and criticism
Philosophy - aesthetics
ISBN/Barcode 9780521453561
ClassificationsDewey:791.4301 791.4301
Audience
Professional & Vocational

Publishing Details

Publisher Cambridge University Press
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publication Date 29 September 1995
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

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 that have dominated discussion over the past twenty years. Professor Currie provides a general theory of pictorial narration and its interpretation in both pictorial and linguistic media, and concludes with an analysis of some ways in which film narrative and literary narrative differ.

Reviews

"Currie is often provocative, as when he analyzes the nature of film images and when he criticizes the theory of 'suture.'" Choice "In this important and impressive book, Gregory Currie tackles several fundamental topics in the philosophy of film and says much of general interest about the nature of imagination...Currie's book is a major contribution to the developing field of the philosophy of film, and also has important things to say about aesthetics and the philosophy of mind. It deserves to be widely read and admired." Berys Gaut, The Philosophical Review