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44Film Theory and Philosophy (review)Philosophical Review 109 (1): 144-7. 2000.This substantial book presents essays by nineteen authors exploring intersections between film theory and philosophy on topics of representation, authorship, ideology, aesthetics, and emotion. The editors explain that film studies has reached a crisis of method after a growth period founded on structural linguistics, psychoanalysis, and Continental philosophy. They wish to alter this foundation and “give momentum to work in an analytic vein”, which requires them to correct the misconception of a…Read more
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19Review of Paisley Livingston, Cinema, Philosophy, Bergman: On Film as Philosophy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (5). 2010.
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7Rhetoric and Representation in Non‐fiction Film (review)British Journal of Aesthetics 41 (2): 222-225. 2001.
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53Regarding film spectatorship: A reply to Richard AllenJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 56 (1): 63-65. 1998.
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67Rhetoric and representation in non-fiction filmBritish Journal of Aesthetics 41 (2): 222-225. 2001.
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48Film, Art, and the Third Culture: A Naturalized Aesthetics of FilmOxford University Press. 2017.Murray Smith presents an original approach to understanding film. He brings the arts, humanities, and sciences together to illuminate artistic creation and aesthetic experience. His 'third culture' approach roots itself in an appreciation of scientific innovation and how this has shaped the moving media.
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113Film spectatorship and the institution of fictionJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 53 (2): 113-127. 1995.
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FilmIn Berys Nigel Gaut & Dominic Lopes (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics, Routledge. 2000.
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12Aesthetic Pursuits: Essays in the Philosophy of Art By Jerrold Levinson Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016, pp. 197, £35 ISBN-13: 978-0198767213 (review)Philosophy 93 (3): 464-470. 2018.
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14IntroductionJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 64 (1): 1-9. 2006.Murray Smith, Thomas E. Wartenberg; Introduction, The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, Volume 64, Issue 1, 8 March 2005, Pages 1–10, https://doi.org/10.
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684Film theory and philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1997.This volume of new essays energizes a growing movement in film theory which questions and seeks to overturn many of the assumptions that have governed film theory for the last twenty years. The book brings together film scholars and philosophers in a united commitment to the standards of argumentation that characterize analytic philosophy rather than a single doctrinal approach. The essays address such topics as authorship, emotion, ideology, representation, and expression in film.
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426Is analytic philosophy the cure for film theory?Philosophy of the Social Sciences 29 (3): 416-440. 1999.
Areas of Specialization
Aesthetics |
Philosophy of Film |
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Philosophy of Psychology |