Aesthetic evaluation and film /
This book provides an in-depth, holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism as they apply to film. Organized around the explanation of key concepts, it illuminates connections between the work of philosophers, theorists and critics, and demonstrates the evaluation of form through the...
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- part 1. What is evaluative aesthetics? The origin and definition of aesthetics
- The aesthetic attitude
- Aesthetics taste
- Sensory immediacy
- Aesthetic pleasure
- Seeking agreement
- Imagination
- Aesthetic appreciation
- Form and style
- Aesthetic qualities
- Specificity
- part 2. What is aesthetic criticism? Evaluation
- Understanding and interpretation
- Perception
- Experience
- Particularity and responsiveness
- Description and analysis
- Close reading
- Comparison, category, and context
- Intention, achievement, and skill
- Evaluative criteria
- Reasons, argument, and objectivity
- Subjectivity, contingency, and the relational
- part 3. The aesthetic evaluatio nof film. Medium
- Constraint
- Convention
- Choice of expectation
- Encouraging perceptual activity
- Prominence
- Pattern
- Relation
- A note on pedgagogy
- Bibliography
- Filmography
- Index.