Unveiling Reality, Perception, Truth in Films

By Peter D Packer

Film--viewing is a unique aesthetic experience. In a movie scene, media that are associated with other art forms individually-sound, language, images, narrative- act together, with their distinctive varieties of meanings informing one another. This richness poses a challenge to philosophers of film: given this complex union, how do we start uncovering what a movie as a whole means? How can we do justice to such an integrated experience? Too often, theorists attend only to one aspect of film-its perceptual presentation or its ability to communicate or its narrative construction-thereby overlooking the extent to which these features (or layers) interact with one another. In this way, theorists typically do not work towards a theory of film meaning that

does justice to film's aesthetic complexity

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8380840739
• ISBN13: 9788380840737
• Release Date: September 2023
• Publisher: Sultan Publisher
• Length: 182 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"