Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Paisley Livingston (Lingnan University, Hong Kong)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.30cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 22.30cm Weight: 0.458kg ISBN: 9780199570171ISBN 10: 0199570175 Pages: 226 Publication Date: 02 July 2009 Audience: Adult education , Further / Higher Education Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsIntroduction Illustrations Part One: Surveying cinema as philosophy 1: Theses on cinema as philosophy 2: Arguing over cinema as philosophy Part Two: An intentionalist approach to film as philosophy 3: Types of authorship in the cinema 4: Partial intentionalism Part Three: On Ingmar Bergman and philosophy 5: Bergman, Kaila, and the faces of irrationality 6: Value, authenticity, and fantasy in Bergman ConclusionReviewsThe book is concise and very clearly argued * Daniel Barnett, Consciousness, Literature and the Arts * one comes away from the book considerably enriched - more fully persuaded of the good sense of Livingstone's views on authorship and interpretation, and newly commited to the glorious gloom of Bergman. * Katherine Thomson-Jones, Mind * What is striking about this book is Livingston's rigorous approach, and the reader will undoubtedly be stimulated by the detail he provides. It is fair, good-natured and generous work ... an exceptional book * John Adams, Philosophy * The field lacks, in other words, anything like a properly developed 'metaphilosophy' of film or popular culture. Paisley Livingston's impressive book stands out against this background, by taking us through a detailed argument on the fundamental issues and drawing a very valuable map of the terrain... Livingston's book covers an impressive amount territory in an exceptionally clear, and often lively, fashion. He is rigorous and yet generous with argumentative opponents.The book balances abstract, conceptual argument with the close analysis of particular films and sequences very effectively. * Murray Smith, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * The field lacks, in other words, anything like a properly developed 'metaphilosophy' of film or popular culture. Paisley Livingston's impressive book stands out against this background, by taking us through a detailed argument on the fundamental issues and drawing a very valuable map of the terrain... Livingston's book covers an impressive amount territory in an exceptionally clear, and often lively, fashion. He is rigorous and yet generous with argumentative opponents.The book balances abstract, conceptual argument with the close analysis of particular films and sequences very effectively. * Murray Smith, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews * What is striking about this book is Livingston's rigorous approach, and the reader will undoubtedly be stimulated by the detail he provides. It is fair, good-natured and generous work ... an exceptional book * John Adams, Philosophy * one comes away from the book considerably enriched - more fully persuaded of the good sense of Livingstone's views on authorship and interpretation, and newly commited to the glorious gloom of Bergman. * Katherine Thomson-Jones, Mind * The book is concise and very clearly argued * Daniel Barnett, Consciousness, Literature and the Arts * The field lacks, in other words, anything like a properly developed 'metaphilosophy' of film or popular culture. Paisley Livingston's impressive book stands out against this background, by taking us through a detailed argument on the fundamental issues and drawing a very valuable map of the terrain... Livingston's book covers an impressive amount territory in an exceptionally clear, and often lively, fashion. He is rigorous and yet generous with argumentative opponents.The book balances abstract, conceptual argument with the close analysis of particular films and sequences very effectively. Murray Smith, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews The field lacks, in other words, anything like a properly developed 'metaphilosophy' of film or popular culture. Paisley Livingston's impressive book stands out against this background, by taking us through a detailed argument on the fundamental issues and drawing a very valuable map of the terrain... Livingston's book covers an impressive amount territory in an exceptionally clear, and often lively, fashion. He is rigorous and yet generous with argumentative opponents.The book balances abstract, conceptual argument with the close analysis of particular films and sequences very effectively. Murray Smith, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews What is striking about this book is Livingston's rigorous approach, and the reader will undoubtedly be stimulated by the detail he provides. It is fair, good-natured and generous work ... an exceptional book John Adams, Philosophy Author InformationPaisley Livingston has a B.A. in Philosophy from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. He is Chair Professor of Philosophy and Dean of Humanities at Lingnan University in Hong Kong. He has held teaching and research positions at The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, McGill University, l'École Polytechnique (Paris), Siegen University, The University of Aarhus, Roskilde University Center, The University of Copenhagen, and Zinbin (Kyoto). His last book was Art and Intention (Oxford: Clarendon). His other books are Ingmar Bergman and the Rituals of Art (Cornell), Literary Knowledge (Cornell) Literature and Rationality (Cambridge), Models of Desire (Johns Hopkins). He co-edited The Creation of Art (Cambridge) with Berys Gaut and The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Film with Carl Plantinga. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
