Noël Carroll è un filosofo americano riconosciuto come una figura di spicco nella filosofia dell'arte contemporanea. Sebbene sia noto soprattutto per i suoi contributi alla filosofia del cinema, il suo lavoro abbraccia anche la teoria artistica generale, gli studi sui media e la filosofia della storia. Un libro particolarmente influente approfondisce l'estetica della narrativa horror attraverso vari mezzi, esplorando il suo fascino paradossale. Le analisi critiche di Carroll sono state accreditate per aver spostato gli studi cinematografici dalle tendenze teoriche prevalenti verso una comprensione più sfumata dell'arte cinematografica.
Minerva's Night Out features essays by philosopher Noël Carroll, examining the interplay of philosophy, film, and popular culture. Accessible to both students and scholars, it covers topics from the philosophy of Halloween to the film Vertigo and the complexities of romantic love.
In Comedy Incarnate , Noel Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton's unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton's films.
Since the 1970s, the academic study of film has been dominated by Structuralist Marxism, varieties of cultural theory, and the psychoanalytic ideas of Freud and Lacan. With Post-Theory, David Bordwell and Noel Carroll have opened the floor to other voices challenging the prevailing practices of film scholarship. Addressing topics as diverse as film scores, national film industries, and audience response. Post-Theory offers fresh directions for understanding film. Bordwell and Carroll pose a simple question. Why not employ many theories tailored to specific goals, rather than searching for a unified theory that will explain all sorts of films, their production, and their reception? The scholars writing here use historical, philosophical, psychological, and feminist methods to tackle such basic issues as: What goes on when viewers perceive a film? How do filmmakers exploit conventions? How do movies create illusions? How does a film arouse emotion? Bordwell and Carroll have given space not only to distinguished film scholars but to non-film specialists as well, ensuring a wide variety of opinions and ideas on virtually every topic on the current agenda of film studies. Full of stimulating essays published here for the first time, Post-Theory promises to redefine the study of cinema.
Philosophy of Art is a textbook for undergraduate students interested in the topic of philosophical aesthetics, introducing the techniques of analytic philosophy in addition to a selection of the major topics in this area.
Argues that the proper task of the critic is not simply to describe, or to uncover hidden meanings or agendas, but ultimately to determine what is of value in art. This book also argues for a humanistic conception of criticism which focuses on what the artist has achieved by creating or performing the work.
Humour is a universal feature of human life. In this Very Short Introduction Noel Carroll considers the nature and value of humour, from its leading theories and its relation to emotion and cognition, to ethical questions of its morality and its significance in shaping society.
Sztuka masowa zapewnia ogromnej liczbie ludzi pierwszy kontakt z doświadczeniem estetycznym. Można by więc oczekiwać, że stanie się ważnym przedmiotem rozważań filozofów sztuki, zarówno współcześnie, jak i przez cały wiek XX. Tak się jednak nie stało. Filozofowie sztuki zazwyczaj albo ją ignorują, albo też, jeśli już zwracają na nią uwagę, to po to, aby ją zdyskredytować, wyjaśnić, dlaczego nie jest prawdziwą sztuką lub dlaczego jest sztuką złą. Żyjemy w epoce sztuki masowej i większość z nas, jak sądzę, zgodziłaby się, że bywa ona dobra lub zła, a mimo to brakuje nam teorii, które mogłyby ją scharakteryzować. Ta sytuacja wymaga zmiany. Książka niniejsza ma być krokiem w tym kierunku. Jej celem jest również rozwinięcie, a może raczej zapoczątkowanie refleksji filozoficznej nad sztuką masową, prowadzonej z perspektywy estetyki analitycznej.
