Theorizing the Moving Image

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Hardcover | 19 August 1996

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Theorizing the Moving Image brings together a selection of essays written by one of the leading critics of film over the past two decades. In this volume, Noel Carroll examines theoretical aspects of film and television through penetrating analyses of such genres as soap opera, documentary, and comedy, and such topics as sight gags, film metaphor, point-of-view editing, and movie music. Throughout, individual films are considered in depth. Carroll's essays, moreover, represent the cognitivist turn in film studies, containing in-depth criticism of existing approaches to film theory, and heralding a new approach to film theory.

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"Professor Carroll has, in one densely packed collection of thought-provoking essays, forever changed the past, present and future of film theory. His rationale reintroduces creativity to a genre burdened with well-intentioned, but ultimately binding and counter-productive rules imposed by an emerging pool of critics. Professor Carroll answers his own critics with clarity and objectivity, and gives logical arguments in favor of a new approach. This volume will, no doubt, perplex and provoke students of film theory for years to come." Midwest Book Review "For its breadth of scholarship, its fecundity of ideas, and its rigor in argument, Theorizing the Moving Image deserves a place on the shelves of anyone interested in the study of film." Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

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Questioning Media
Medium specificity arguments and the self-consciously invented arts
The specificity of media in the arts
Concerning uniqueness claims for photographic and cinematographic representation
Defining the moving image
Popular Film and TV
The power of movies
Toward a theory of film suspense
As the dial turns: notes on soap operas
Toward a theory of point of view editing
Notes on movie music
Notes on the sight gag
Avant-garde and Documentary Film
Avant-garde film and film theory
Causation, the amplification of movement and the avant-garde film
Language and cinema: preliminary notes for a theory of verbal images
A note on film metaphor
From real to reel: entangled in non-fiction film
Reply to Carol Browson and Jack C. Wolf
Ideology
The image of women in film: a defense of a paradigm
Film, rhetoric and ideology
The History of Film Theory
Film/mind analogies: the case of Hugo Munsterberg
Hans Richter's Struggle for Film
A brief note on Frampton's notion of metahistory
Polemical Exchanges
Cognitivism, contemporary film theory and method
Cracks in the acoustic mirror
A reply to Heath
Replies to Jennifer Hammett and Richard Allen
False Starts
Film history and film theory
Art, film and ideology
Toward a theory of film editing
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