Film theory and philosophy
By: edited by Richard Allen and Murray Smith.
Contributors: Allen, Richard, 1959-; Smith, Murray, 1962-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 474
Subjects: Motion pictures -- Philosophy
Notes: "First published in Clarendon paperback 1999"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [458]-465) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : film theory and philosophy / Richard Allen and Murray Smith; title: The film theory that never was : a nervous manifesto / Gregory Currie; title: On pictures and photographs : objections answered / Kendall L. Walton; title: Looking at motion pictures / Richard Allen; title: Sound, epistemology, film / Edward Branigan; title: Cinematic authorship / Paisley Livingston; title: Film authorship and collaboration / Berys Gaut; title: Fiction, non-fiction, and the film of presumptive assertion : a conceptual analysis / Noël Carroll; title: What is non-fiction cinema? / Trevor Ponech; title: On film narrative and narrative meaning / George Wilson; title: The ideological impediment : epistemology, feminism, and film theory / Jennifer Hammett; title: Ideology and film culture / Héctor Rodriguez; title: Aesthetics and politics in contemporary black film theory / Tommy L. Lott; title: Music in the movies : a philosophical enquiry / Peter Kivy; title: Personal agency theories of expressiveness and the movies / Flo Leibowitz; title: Aristotelians on Speed : paradoxes of genre in the context of cinema / Deborah Knight; title: Notes on spectator emotion and ideological film criticism / Carl Plantinga; title: Comedy and classicism / Dirk Eitzen; title: Imaging from the inside / Murray Smith; title: Seeing theory : on perception and emotional response in current film theory / Malcolm Turvey.