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Film, Art, and Filmart - An Introduction to Aesthetics Through Film (Paperback)
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Film, Art, and Filmart - An Introduction to Aesthetics Through Film (Paperback)
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This work is a basic introduction to aesthetics and covers the
major theories of art, while referring to various filmic examples
to illustrate the complex ideas related to the philosophy of art.
In addition, it addresses film itself as an art form, analyzes film
studies, and discusses film's ambiguous cultural/artistic position.
The overarching theme of the book is the most basic aesthetic
question: What is art? That eternal and critical question is
explored by addressing representation, formalism, and expressivism,
three classic aesthetic theories. Film, Art, and Filmart begins by
focusing on Plato, including a look at the issue of censorship as
it is raised in his Republic. Then formalism is discussed via Kant,
and Roger Fry's and Clive Bell's theory of Significant Form.
Expressivism is dealt with by utilizing views by Leo Tolstoy and
R.G. Collingwood. Contemporary issues in aesthetics are illuminated
with George Dickie's theory of art, while also examining the
cognitive theories of Nelson Goodman and Martha Nussbaum. The final
chapter opens definitional structure up a bit by investigating the
concept of freedom as integral to art and by straying from the
largely analytic focus of the rest of the book through analysis of
continental philosophers, such as Hegel, Nietzsche, and Foucault.
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