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Table of Contents Acknowledgments General Introduction Part I Film as Art Introduction 1. Photography and Representation Roger Scruton 2. The Aesthetics of Photographic Transparency Dominic McIver Lopes 3. Everybody Gets A Cut Terrence Rafferty Part II What Is Film? Introduction 4. From The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film Stanley Cavell 5. A Note on the Film Susanne K. Langer 6. Vision and Dream in the Cinema F. E. Sparshott 7. The Long Goodbye: The Imaginary Language of Film Gregory Currie 8. Moving Pictures Arthur C. Danto 9. Defining the Moving Image Noël Carroll Part III Documentary Introduction 10. Visible Traces: Documentary and the Contents of Photographs Gregory Currie 11. Fiction, Non-Fiction, and the Film of Presumptive Assumption: A Conceptual Analysis Noël Carroll Part IV Film Narrative/Narration Introduction 12. Le Grand Imagier Steps Out: The Primitive Basis of Film Narration George M. Wilson 13. Unreliability Refigured: Narrative in Literature and Film Gregory Currie Part V Film and Emotion Introduction 14. Film, Emotion, and Genre Noël Carroll 15. Fearing Fictions Kendall Walton 16. Empathy and (Film) Fiction Alex Neill 17. Identification and Emotion in Narrative Film Berys Gaut 18. In Fictional Shoes: Mental Simulation and Fiction Deborah Knight Part VI Topics of Film Criticism Introduction 19. Morals for Method George M. Wilson 20. Cinematic Authorship Paisley Livingston 21. National Cinema: The Very Idea Jinhee Choi Part VII Film and Morality Introduction 22. Film Criticism and Virtue Theory Joseph H. Kupfer 23. Beauty and Evil: The Case of Leni Riefenstahl's Triumph of the Will Mary Devereaux 24. A First Look at the Pornography/Civil Rights Ordinance: Could Pornography be the Subordination of Women? Melinda Vadas Part VIII Film and Knowledge Introduction 25. The Philosophical Limits of Film Bruce Russell 26. Minerva in the Movies: Relations Between Philosophy and Film Karen Hanson 27. Film as a Philosophical Resource Lester H. Hunt Bibliography Index
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Motion pictures.