Film, Art, and the Limits of Science
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-83234-5 (ISBN)
There is currently a vigorous debate in film studies and related disciplines about the extent to which scientific paradigms like evolutionary psychology and neuroscience can explain the cinema and other artforms. This debate tends to devolve into extreme positions, with many film scholars and other humanists insisting that science has little or no role to play in the study of the arts, while a minority contends that it is always needed to fully account for cultural phenomena like film.
Malcolm Turvey advocates for a more moderate position. He argues that, while the sciences can explain much about film and the other arts, there is much about these phenomena that only humanistic methods can account for. He thereby mounts a trenchant defence of the purpose and value of humanistic explanation, one that nevertheless acknowledges and welcomes the legitimate contribution of the sciences to the study of the arts.
Malcolm Turvey is Sol Gittleman Professor in the Department of the History of Art and Architecture at Tufts University and was the founding Director (2015-2021) of Tufts' Film & Media Studies Program. He is also an editor of the journal October. He is theauthor of Doubting Vision: Film and the Revelationist Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2008), The Filming of Modern Life: European Avant-Garde Film of the 1920s (MIT Press, 2011), and Play Time: Jacques Tati and Comedic Modernism (Columbia University Press, 2019). He regularly teaches film theory and the philosophy of film, along with courses on the horror film, French cinema, avant-garde film, and film and modernism. He has been interested in, and has written about, scientific explanations of cinema since the publication of his first edited anthology, Wittgenstein, Theory and the Arts (Routledge, 2001).
Introduction Moderate Autonomism and Serious Pessimism.- Wittgenstein, Science, and Moderate Autonomism.- Moderate Autonomism, Extreme Autonomism, and Anti-Autonomism.- Norms, Normativity, and the Internal Perspective.- Serious Pessimism and Evolutionary Psychology.- Serious Pessimism and Mirror Neurons.- Conclusion The Limits of Science.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 12.02.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | XVII, 311 p. 7 illus., 1 illus. in color. |
| Verlagsort | Cham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 210 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| Schlagworte | cognitive film theory • Evolutionary Psychology • film and cognition • film philosophy • Mirror Neurons |
| ISBN-10 | 3-031-83234-5 / 3031832345 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-3-031-83234-5 / 9783031832345 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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