Film, Art, and the Third Culture: A Naturalized Aesthetics of Film

by Murray Smith

Book Overview

In the mid-1950s C.P. Snow began his campaign against the 'two cultures' - the debilitating divide, as he saw it, between traditional 'literary intellectual' culture, and the culture of the sciences, urging in its place a 'third culture' which would draw upon and integrate the resources of disciplines spanning the natural and social sciences, the arts and the humanities. Murray Smith argues that, with the ever-increasing influence of evolutionary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198822758
• ISBN13: 9780198822752
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"