Phil Film Anth

Carroll (humanities, Temple University) and Choi (film studies, Carleton University) stress a need to analyze the philosophy of motion pictures and therefore have compiled an anthology of readings by philosophers for courses on the subject. Twenty-seven essays from 1953 to the present, most previously published, are organized into eight sections, each with an introduction. The selections discuss the philosophical questions of film as art, the definition of film, and various aspects of documentaries, DVDs, narrative, emotion in film, authorship, nationalism, morals and ethics in film, pornography, and film's connection to knowledge. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Noël Carroll is the Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Temple University and the author of Beyond Aesthetics (2001), A Philosophy of Mass Art (1999), and Interpreting the Moving Image (1998).

Jinhee Choi is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at Carleton University. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and The British Journal of Aesthetics.