Image and Mind: Film, Philosophy and Cognitive Science

by Gregory Currie

Book Overview

This is a book about the nature of film: about the nature of moving images, about the viewer's relation to film, and about the kinds of narrative that film is capable of presenting. It represents a very decisive break with the semiotic and psychoanalytic theories of film that have dominated discussion over the past twenty years. Professor Currie provides a general theory of pictorial narration and its interpretation in both pictorial and linguistic media, and concludes with an analysis of some ways in which film narrative and literary narrative differ.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521057787
• ISBN13: 9780521057783
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"