"This book in an analytical inquiry into classical film theory (thais is, film theory before the advent of he semiotics and poststructuralism than began to dominate academic film literature in the 1970s). The author brings his training and experience as both an analytical philosopher and a film scholar to bear on its chief tenets. Using Rudolf Arnheim, André Bazin, and V. F. Perkins as representatives of major types of thinking about film, he provides clear and concice overviews of their work and locates their thought against the critical and theoretical currents of their times, the historical development of the cinema, and the prevalent issues in philosophical aesthetics. -- P.[4] de la couv.

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