Aesthetic evaluation and film
by Andrew Klevan
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Evaluating the form of a film, understanding and appreciating its good and possibly less good features, is important to those who care deeply about film as an art form. Presented as an interdisciplinary study, this is the first English language book to present an in-depth and holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism and how they apply to film. The book is organised around the explication of key concepts while illuminating the connections between the work of philosophers, theorists, and critics (Kant, Wittgenstein, Beardsley, Scruton, Sibley, Leavis, Arnheim, Bazin, and Perkins). It also demonstrates the evaluation of film form through the close analysis of sequences. The book steers the reader through the subject area from its fundamental aspects to those that are more advanced. It is therefore suitable for students of Films Studies and Philosophical Aesthetics, both undergraduates and postgraduates, while simultaneously providing a supportive framework for academics researching or teaching in the area. The crisp and lucid style also makes the book efficiently informative to a wider readership. The book argues that aesthetic evaluation should be flexibly informed by a cluster of concerns about medium, constraint, convention, choice, perception, prominence, pattern and relation; and rather than privileging a criterion, a theory, or a particular film style, it advocates and models a type of approach, attention, process, and discourse. Therefore, the method espoused in Aesthetic Evaluation and Film is useful for evaluating films from different places, periods, and genres. This ensures it will be a necessary foundational text in the field of film aesthetics for years to come. Andrew Klevan is Associate Professor in Film Studies at the University of Oxford. He is author of Disclosure of the Everyday - Undramatic Achievement in Narrative Film; Film Performance - From Achievement to Appreciation; and Barbara Stanwyck.
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Evaluating the form of a film, understanding and appreciating its good and possibly less good features, is important to those who care deeply about film as an art form. Presented as an interdisciplinary study, this is the first English language book to present an in-depth and holistic examination of evaluative aesthetics and criticism and how they apply to film. The book is organised around the explication of key concepts while illuminating the connections between the work of philosophers, theorists, and critics (Kant, Wittgenstein, Beardsley, Scruton, Sibley, Leavis, Arnheim, Bazin, and Perkins). It also demonstrates the evaluation of film form through the close analysis of sequences. The book steers the reader through the subject area from its fundamental aspects to those that are more advanced. It is therefore suitable for students of Films Studies and Philosophical Aesthetics, both undergraduates and postgraduates, while simultaneously providing a supportive framework for academics researching or teaching in the area. The crisp and lucid style also makes the book efficiently informative to a wider readership. The book argues that aesthetic evaluation should be flexibly informed by a cluster of concerns about medium, constraint, convention, choice, perception, prominence, pattern and relation; and rather than privileging a criterion, a theory, or a particular film style, it advocates and models a type of approach, attention, process, and discourse. Therefore, the method espoused in Aesthetic Evaluation and Film is useful for evaluating films from different places, periods, and genres. This ensures it will be a necessary foundational text in the field of film aesthetics for years to come. Andrew Klevan is Associate Professor in Film Studies at the University of Oxford. He is author of Disclosure of the Everyday - Undramatic Achievement in Narrative Film; Film Performance - From Achievement to Appreciation; and Barbara Stanwyck.
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- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Publication Date August 2018
- Orginal LanguageEnglish
- ISBN/Identifier 9781784991258 / 1784991252
- Publication Country or regionUnited Kingdom
- ReadershipGeneral/trade
- Publish StatusPublished
- Dimensions216 X 138 mm
- Reference Code4074
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