Philosophical Problems of Classical Film Theory

by Noël Carroll

This book is an analytical inquiry into classical film theory (that is, film theory before the advent of the semiotics and poststructuralism that began to dominate academic film literature in the 1970s). The author brings his training and experience as both an analytical philosopher and a film scholar to bear on its chief tenets. Using Rudolf Arnheim, Andre Bazin, and V. F. Perkins as representatives of major types of thinking about film, he provides...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 069107321X
• ISBN13: 9780691073217
• Release Date: April 1988
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.