In the mid-1950s CP Snow began his campaign against the'two cultures'-the debilitating
divide, as he saw it, between traditional'literary intellectual'culture, and the culture of the …

How do movies evoke and express ethical ideas? What role does our emotional
involvement play in this process? What makes the aesthetic power of cinema ethically …

The highest expression of the conflict of things, as a spontaneous eruption of possibilities, as
movement, as a simultaneous poem, as a symphony of cries, shots, commands, embodying …

This book brings together various theoretical approaches to Horror that have received
consistent academic attention since the 1990s–abjection, disgust, cognition …

Metaphors in audiovisual media receive increasing attention from film and communication
studies as well as from linguistics and multimodal metaphor research. The specific media …

Drawing on a variety of popular films, including Avatar, Enter the Void, Fight Club, The
Matrix, Speed Racer, X-Men and War of the Worlds, Supercinema studies the ways in which …

Few living philosophers have been featured in films: Jean Luc Godard's Vivre sa Vie (1962)
has Brice Parrain talk to Anna Karina in a caf é, and in La Chinoise (1968) Francis Jeanson …

Across the academy, scholars are debating the question of what bearing scientific inquiry
has upon the humanities. The latest addition to the AFI Film Readers series, Cognitive …

With the rise of review sites and social media, films today, as soon as they are shown,
immediately become the topic of debates on their merits not only as entertainment, but also …

The folk intuition about the motion picture is that the power of the medium emerges from the
strong, putatively realistic grip of ordinary movie-going experience—an experience that …