9780199594894-0199594899-Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies

Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies

ISBN-13: 9780199594894
ISBN-10: 0199594899
Edition: 1
Author: George M. Wilson
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 230 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780199594894
ISBN-10: 0199594899
Edition: 1
Author: George M. Wilson
Publication date: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Format: Hardcover 230 pages

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Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies (ISBN-13: 9780199594894 and ISBN-10: 0199594899), written by authors George M. Wilson, was published by Oxford University Press in 2012. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Seeing Fictions in Film: The Epistemology of Movies (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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In works of literary fiction, it is a part of the fiction that the words of the text are being recounted by some work-internal "voice": the literary narrator. One can ask similarly whether the story in movies is told in sights and sounds by a work-internal subjectivity that orchestrates them: a cinematic narrator. George M. Wilson argues that movies do involve a fictional recounting (an audio-visual narration) in terms of the movie's sound and image track. Viewers are usually prompted to imagine seeing the items and events in the movie's fictional world and to imagine hearing the associated fictional sounds. However, it is much less clear that the cinematic narration must be imagined as the product of some kind of "narrator" -- of a work-internal agent of the narration. Wilson goes on to examine the further question whether viewers imagine seeing the fictional world face-to-face or whether they imagine seeing it through some kind of work-internal mediation. It is a key contention of this book that only the second of these alternatives allows one to give a coherent account of what we do and do not imagine about what we are seeing on the screen. Having provided a partial account of the foundations of film narration, the final chapters explore the ways in which certain complex strategies of cinematic narration are executed in three exemplary films: David Fincher's Fight Club, von Sternberg's The Scarlet Empress, and the Coen brothers' The Man Who Wasn't There.
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