Minerva's Night Out

Philosophy, Pop Culture, and Moving Pictures
Mitwirkender: Carroll, Noël

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Produktbeschreibung

Minerva's Night Out showcases noted philosopher and motion picture and media theorist Noël Carroll addressing the philosophical aspects of popular films and pop culture in thought-provoking essays at the intersection of the popular and the profound. Ranging across the philosophy of Halloween to psychoanalysis and the horror film, from Vertigo and the pathologies of romantic love to Andy Kaufman and the philosophies of interpretation, Carroll delivers the insight, wit, and serious engagement for which he's known. At once accessible and intellectually stimulating, Minerva's Night Out plumbs the depths beneath the surface of motion pictures and popular culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 699g
• ISBN-13: 9781405193900
• ISBN-10: 1405193905
• Artikelnr.: 35306477

Autorenporträt

Noël Carroll is a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. A former journalist, screenwriter, and President of the American Society for Aesthetics, Carroll is the author of 16 books, including Art in Three Dimensions (2010), On Criticism (2009), The Philosophy of Motion Pictures (Blackwell, 2008), Beyond Aesthetics (2001), A Philosophy of Mass Art (1999), and Interpreting the Moving Image (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Philosophy and the Popular Arts 1

Section I The Philosophy of Mass Art 7

1 The Ontology of Mass Art 9

2 Modernity and the Plasticity of Perception 29

3 The Ties that Bind: Characters, the Emotions, and PopularFictions 40

4 Character, Social Information, and the Challenge of Psychology64

Section II The Philosophy of Motion Pictures 83

5 Movies, the Moral Emotions, and Sympathy 85

6 The Problem with Movie Stars 106

7 Cinematic Narrative 122

8 Cinematic Narration 133

9 Psychoanalysis and the Horror Film 145

Section III Philosophy and Popular Film 159

10 Philosophical Insight, Emotion, and Popular Fiction: The Caseof Sunset Boulevard 161

11 Vertigo and the Pathologies of Romantic Love 183

12 What Mr Creosote Knows about Laughter 194

13 Memento and the Phenomenology of Comprehending Motion PictureNarration 203

Section IV Philosophy and Popular TV 221

14 Tales of Dread in The Twilight Zone: A Contribution toNarratology 223

15 Sympathy for Soprano 234

16 Consuming Passion: Sex and the City 247

Section V Philosophy on Broadway 267

17 Art and Friendship 269

18 Martin McDonagh's The Pillowman, or The Justificationof Literature 276

Section VI Philosophy across Popular Culture 289

19 The Fear of Fear Itself: The Philosophy of Halloween 291

20 The Grotesque Today: Preliminary Notes toward a Taxonomy302

21 Andy Kaufman and the Philosophy of Interpretation 324

Index 348

Rezensionen

"Noël Carroll is America's greatest philosopherof popular art, and Minerva's Night Out is thedefinitive collection of his work on the subject. This book isessential reading for anyone interested in the interpretation ofpopular culture."

--William Irwin, General Editor of TheBlackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series

"What is astonishing here is not just the versatility, butthe interpretive power, Carroll's ability to find philosophicalthemes in subjects ranging from Yasmina Reza to Hitchcock toHalloween."

--Joan Acocella of The New Yorker

"In these probing, subtle, and entertaining reflections oncinema, television, and theatre, Noël Carroll once more proveshimself our foremost philosopher of popular art."

--David Bordwell, University of Wisconsin-Madison

"Noël Carroll's omnivorous interest in all thearts--fine, popular, mass--always undergirded by sturdyphilosophical analysis is on display in this excellent collection.I'm glad to recommend it."

--Ted Cohen, University of Chicago