The Film Experience

Author : Timothy Corrigan
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
ISBN 13 : 9780312445850
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Film Experience written by Timothy Corrigan and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. This book was released on 2008-12-29 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Film Experience is a comprehensive introduction to film that treats students as the avid movie fans they are while surpassing all other texts in helping them understand the art form’s full scope, breadth, and depth. Like other introductory texts, it offers strong coverage of film’s formal elements, but goes further by situating this formal knowledge in the larger cultural contexts that inform the ways that we all view film. The authors’ rich narrative integrates the cultural history of film throughout and demonstrates how the elements, practices, economics, and history of the medium contribute to a film’s many possible meanings. The outstanding art program — now in full color — visually reinforces all the key concepts and techniques discussed in the text.

Author : Shawn Loht
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498519032
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Phenomenology of Film written by Shawn Loht and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-08-25 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phenomenology of Film: A Heideggerian Account of the Film Experience uses the philosophy of Martin Heidegger as a framework for addressing key issues in the philosophy of film. This study grapples with the question of how we can reconcile film as a popular entertainment medium with Heidegger’s own various critiques of popular media and culture throughout his career. Shawn Loht also explores topics such as the ontology of film and moving images; the phenomenological character of the viewer experience; film conceived as an art medium; and the function of films as vehicles for philosophical thought. He further discusses important concepts from Heidegger’s philosophy--Dasein, existentiality, world, art and poetry, and the nature of philosophy. The first four chapters take up these issues from a theoretical perspective. The remaining chapters provide robust application of the theoretical material to the films of three contemporary filmmakers: Terrence Malick, Michael Haneke, and David Gordon Green. As the first single-author monograph that takes up Heidegger’s relevance to film, Phenomenology of Film will be of particular interest to philosophers of film and specialists of film and media studies working in the intersection of phenomenology and film or phenomenological approaches to issues in popular culture.

Author : Julian Hanich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789462986565
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Structures of the Film Experience by Jean-Pierre Meunier written by Julian Hanich and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time this volume makes Jean-Pierre Meunier's insightful thoughts on the film experience available for an English-speaking readership. Introduced and commented by specialists in film studies and philosophy, Meunier's intricate phenomenological descriptions of the spectator's engagement with fiction films, documentaries and home movies can reach the wide audience they have deserved ever since their publication in French in 1969.

Author : Vivian Sobchack
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691213275
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Address of the Eye written by Vivian Sobchack and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema is a sensuous object, but in our presence it becomes also a sensing, sensual, sense-making subject. Thus argues Vivian Sobchack as she challenges basic assumptions of current film theory that reduce film to an object of vision and the spectator to a victim of a deterministic cinematic apparatus. Maintaining that these premises ignore the material and cultural-historical situations of both the spectator and the film, the author makes the radical proposal that the cinematic experience depends on two "viewers" viewing: the spectator and the film, each existing as both subject and object of vision. Drawing on existential and semiotic phenomenology, and particularly on the work of Merleau-Ponty, Sobchack shows how the film experience provides empirical insight into the reversible, dialectical, and signifying nature of that embodied vision we each live daily as both "mine" and "another's." In this attempt to account for cinematic intelligibility and signification, the author explores the possibility of human choice and expressive freedom within the bounds of history and culture.

Author : Timothy Corrigan
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
ISBN 13 : 1457685833
Total Pages : 546 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Film Experience written by Timothy Corrigan and published by Macmillan Higher Education. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 546 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In our culture, watching movies is a universal experience but understanding film may not be. The Film Experience reaches out to students, connecting their experiences watching movies with better understanding and knowledge of the medium's full scope. Timothy Corrigan and Patricia Whites classroom favorite is both authoritative and joyful about watching, analyzing, and understanding film. With clips from classic and contemporary films (Rear Window, Life of Pi, Moonrise Kingdom, Chinatown, and many others) plus hundreds of movie images and other graphics, the thoroughly revised new edition covers everything from editing to cinematography to narrative genres, all in a cultural context that reinforces why films and film study matter. The book's featuresForm in Action, Film in Focus, and Concepts at Work combine text, stills, and links to videos online to explore specific films, scenes, and trends in depth.

Author : Patrick Phillips
Publisher : British Film Institute
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Understanding Film Texts written by Patrick Phillips and published by British Film Institute. This book was released on 2000 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Marketing Blurb

Author : Francesco Sticchi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429847459
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Melancholy Emotion in Contemporary Cinema written by Francesco Sticchi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work outlines a new methodology for film analysis based on the radical materialist thought of Baruch Spinoza, re-evaluating contemporary cognitive media theory and philosophical theories on the emotional and intellectual aspects of film experience. Sticchi’s exploration of Spinozian philosophy creates an experiential constructive model to blend the affective and intellectual aspects of cognition, and to combine it with different philosophical interpretations of film theory. Spinoza’s embodied philosophy rejected logical and ethical dualisms, and established a perfect parallelism between sensation and reason and provides the opportunity to address negative emotions and sad passions without referring exclusively to traditional notions such as catharsis or sublimation, and to put forth a practical/embodied notion of Film-Philosophy. This new analytical approach is tested on four case studies, films that challenge the viewer’s emotional engagement since they display situations of cosmic failure and depict controversial and damaged characters: A Serious Man (2009); Melancholia (2011); The Act of Killing (2012) and Only Lovers Left Alive (2013). This book is an important addition to the literature in Film Studies, particularly in Cognitive Film Theory and Philosophy of Film. Its affective and semantic analyses of film experience (studies of embodied conceptualisation), connecting Spinoza’s thought to the analysis of audiovisual media, will also be of interest to Philosophy scholars and in academic courses of film theory, film-philosophy and cognitive film studies.

Author : Carl Plantinga
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520943919
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moving Viewers written by Carl Plantinga and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-04-08 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone knows the thrill of being transported by a film, but what is it that makes movie watching such a compelling emotional experience? In Moving Viewers, Carl Plantinga explores this question and the implications of its answer for aesthetics, the psychology of spectatorship, and the place of movies in culture. Through an in-depth discussion of mainstream Hollywood films, Plantinga investigates what he terms "the paradox of negative emotion" and the function of mainstream narratives as ritualistic fantasies. He describes the sensual nature of the movies and shows how film emotions are often elicited for rhetorical purposes. He uses cognitive science and philosophical aesthetics to demonstrate why cinema may deliver a similar emotional charge for diverse audiences.

Author : Julian Hanich
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474414966
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Audience Effect written by Julian Hanich and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-22 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this innovative book, Julian Hanich explores the subjectively lived experience of watching films together, to discover a fuller understanding of cinema as an art form and a social institution that matters to millions of people worldwide.

Author : Jennifer M. Barker
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520943902
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tactile Eye written by Jennifer M. Barker and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2009-05-27 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tactile Eye expands on phenomenological analysis and film theory in its accessible and beautifully written exploration of the visceral connection between films and their viewers. Jennifer M. Barker argues that the experience of cinema can be understood as deeply tactile—a sensuous exchange between film and viewer that goes beyond the visual and aural, gets beneath the skin, and reverberates in the body. Barker combines analysis of embodiment and phenomenological film theory to provide an expansive description of cinematic tactility. She considers feminist experimental film, early cinema, animation, and horror, as well as classic, modernist, and postmodern cinema; films from ten national cinemas; and work by Chuck Jones, Buster Keaton, the Quay Brothers, Satyajit Ray, Carolee Schneemann, and Tom Tykwer, among others.