What do we see in film?
Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 66 (2):149–159 (2008)
| Abstract | Many films are made by a two-tier process: the photographing of events which themselves represent the story the film tells. The latter representation is often illusionistic. I explore two consequences. The first concerns what we see in film. I argue that we sometimes see in such films, not events representing the story told, but simply the events composing that story. The way is thereby opened to a unified aesthetic of film, whether made the two-tier way or not. The second consequence is that, since we see these films as photographic, we sometimes experience them as photographic recordings of the events, possibly fictional, that compose the story told. | |||||||||
| Keywords | Cinema Aesthetics Experience Film | |||||||||
| Categories | ||||||||||
| Options |
|
|||||||||
Download options| PhilPapers Archive |
Upload a copy of this paper Check publisher's policy on self-archival Papers currently archived: 5,631 |
| External links |
 |
| Through your library | Configure |
Similar books and articlesI. C. Jarvie (1987). Philosophy of the Film: Epistemology, Ontology, Aesthetics. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Jessica Green (2010). Understanding the Score: Film Music Communicating to and Influencing the Audience. Journal of Aesthetic Education 44 (4):81-94.
Gaston Roberge (1992). The Ways of Film Studies: Film Theory & the Interpretation of Films. Ajanta Publications.
Laurie Shrage (1990). Feminist Film Aesthetics: A Contextual Approach. Hypatia 5 (2):137 - 148.
John Dilworth (2003). Ariadne at the Movies. Contemporary Aesthetics 1 (1):Online.
Bert Cardullo (2011). Art-House Cinema, Avant-Garde Film, and Dramatic Modernism. Journal of Aesthetic Education 45 (2):1-16.
Robert Hopkins (2010). Moving Because Pictures? Illusion and the Emotional Power of Film. Midwest Studies in Philosophy 34 (1):200-218.
David E. W. Fenner (2001). Virtues and Vices in Film Criticism. International Journal of Applied Philosophy 15 (2):309-322.
Analytics
Monthly downloads |
Added to index2009-01-28Total downloads84 ( #8,840 of 548,973 )Recent downloads (6 months)3 ( #25,799 of 548,973 )How can I increase my downloads? |
My notes
Discussion
