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In this clear and concise guide, Noel Carroll considers the nature and value of humour - exploring the connections between humour and cognition, its moral dimensions, its role in society, and much more.

This collection is similarly balanced between criticism and theory building. Although some pieces undertake demolition jobs, most are devoted to constructive theorizing.

Claims authorial intention, art history, and morality play a role in our encounter with art works.

Minerva's Night Out showcases noted philosopher and motion picture and media theorist Noël Carroll addressing the philosophical aspects of popular films and pop culture in thought-provoking essays at the intersection of the popular and the profound. Ranging across the philosophy of Halloween to psychoanalysis and the horror film, from Vertigo and the pathologies of romantic love to Andy Kaufman and the philosophies of interpretation, Carroll d...

Services comprise of socio-technical (human and technological) factors which exchange various resources and competencies. Service networks are used to transfer resources and competencies, yet they remain an under-explored and 'invisible' infrastructure. In response to the growing importance placed on understanding these complexities, the field of 'Service Science' has emerged to guide the effective design, implementation, and management of ser...

While narrative has been one of liveliest and most productive areas of research in literary theory, discussions of the nature of emotional responses to art and of the cognitive value of art tend to concentrate almost exclusively on the problem of fiction: How can we emote over or learn from fictions? Narrative, Emotion, and Insight explores what would happen if aestheticians framed the matter differently, having narrativesrather than fictional...

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This anthology is the first study of the philosophy of narrative in the analytic tradition. Brings together eleven articles exploring narrative, metaphysics and epistemology, character, and emotionExamines various narrative art forms, including painting and comicsThe first of a new series of books published in association with the "Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism

Philosophy of Art is a textbook for undergraduate students interested in the topic of philosophical aesthetics, introducing the techniques of analytic philosophy in addition to a selection of the major topics in this area.

«Esta preocupación general por la amenaza que supone el arte de masas se refleja también en la academia.El arte de masas se ha convertido en el objeto central de estudio en los departamentos universitarios de humanidades...Una publicación tras otra interroga a obras de arte de masas por su contribución al racismo, el sexismo, la homofobia o el clasismo, y aunque se admita que esta preocupación es obsesiva y hasta paranoica... la mayoría de nos...

Designed for classroom use, this authoritative anthology presents key selections from the best contemporary work in philosophy of film. The featured essays have been specially chosen for their clarity, philosophical depth, and consonance with the current move towards cognitive film theory Eight sections with introductions cover topics such as the nature of film, film as art, documentary cinema, narration and emotion in film, film criticism, an...

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First Published in 1990. Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative structures of the genre, dealing with horror as a "transmedia" phenomenon.

In "Comedy Incarnate, " Noel Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton's unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton's films. Bold and provocative thesis written by one of America's foremost film theoristsTakes a unique look at the philosophies behind Keaton's styleWeighs visual elements over narrative form in the analysis of the Keaton's workProvides a fresh vantage point for analysis of film and co...

In a recent poll of practicing art critics, 75 percent reported that rendering judgments on artworks was the least significant aspect of their job. This is a troubling statistic for philosopher and critic Noel Carroll, who argues that that the proper task of the critic is not simply to describe, or to uncover hidden meanings or agendas, but instead to determine what is of value in art. Carroll argues for a humanistic conception of criticism w...

In "Comedy Incarnate, " Noel Carroll surveys the characteristics of Buster Keaton's unique visual style, to reveal the distinctive experience of watching Keaton's films. Bold and provocative thesis written by one of America's foremost film theoristsTakes a unique look at the philosophies behind Keaton's styleWeighs visual elements over narrative form in the analysis of the Keaton's workProvides a fresh vantage point for analysis of film and co...

For decades, the horror genre has been a major popular entertainment and has dominated the publishing and film industries. Yet there exists no philosophical examination of the genre - the time for its aesthetic analysis is ripe. Noel Carroll, film scholar and philosopher, offers the first serious look at the aesthetics of horror. In this book he discusses the nature and narrative structures of the genre, dealing with horror as a "transmedia" p...

Philosophy of Art" is a textbook for undergraduate students interested in the topic of philosophical aesthetics. It aims to introduce the techniques of analytic philosophy in addition to a selection of the major topics in this field of inquiry. These include the representational theory of art, formalism, neo-formalism, aesthetic theories of art, neo-Wittgensteinism, the Institutional Theory of Art, as well as historical approaches to the natur...

Claims authorial intention, art history, and morality play a role in our encounter with art works.

The philosophy of motion pictures has typically been explored in a top-down fashion. The essence of motion pictures is identified - usually understood in terms of photographic film - and every other feature of the film is weighed in relation to that essence. Philosophy of Motion Pictures offers a new approach, championing the concept of the moving image in a more freestyle manner. Motion pictures are defined in a way that not only embraces th...